Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 891927d6441e66d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 00:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 655073f4a513aab420653bb8a0febd71 SHA-1: 4d721363cc7e0596b127bdc618316c6b0b937f9d SHA-256: 891927d6441e66d9e66f456877b2715e26f5d39177cc5f53b98c9825965ac4f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on compromised CMS uploads points to a phishing or potentially unwanted software distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solitaire+classic+download+windows+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag57r72tr35ipstuunh99gf4g0/zilapuguvijogixaladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746a452fd39---tedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/98400305220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/wedipudetisobinifenijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eae3156ffd---kafogufekadaritulirolakag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/gopizofanazimoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2ea994750---dinerasetazuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7fa5eb1a9bd18155e4bda1a53a4d3af/78132607345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/714b6a418004fc7c0f19e0e7eef7d0fe/lumiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6c9d1a49e2---kewakivigurujix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb115cb9c6---sazux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db4ad32440---givibemasujoduriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/57001435432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/fisigugizexikowimekizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210628003713498786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d06d02f9dd---71919820879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/murozinenorivalilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b17988684cdd2863ad0646e252e8057/96723413575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607feea36e8b2---93929370033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c9757f4788badd054ddb093b85aeca/nozelajuriwigitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/40570018530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holycrossyouthministryasp.org/clients/f/fa/fa15eac34f6f8ef5a8ada011ffef1578/File/74551416679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd761d0833f---42543581420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/43108516317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6ca051080d3a93bc0d670b0fd761b50/semojenedadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f807.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF807 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001101e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101E 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 8a31db6f580e2b7814450030074aa4482e3ffef32036d699a64bc38b21c1ba3a
font_02_sfnt_off000128d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D6 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 776b58c2c8562e1b96f3beb2b7c3a79e228eaa108f552519a2ee4624f110bd17