Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 891b591c9665a612…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:18:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dc455572776ca4c2a54b68e02ba02aa0 SHA-1: 8ecfe5def99922ada94e574bca40abeb58f4df57 SHA-256: 891b591c9665a61299fd6dcdbd5a39fb2e4c0a1fdc8e335de614565e68d71c27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to distribute phishing content or manipulate search engine results.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210530033024.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d5b5f61bf4a4c2b524ae85fd653d27a/lanavebedeginoxemu.pdf
    • https://bayihoki99.com/contents//files/gopobirotirizojinazan.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18db0d5c6bc9967af5845bb6e4f30d1d/68038228113.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789553a4b0b---vitewinubepez.pdf
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkpadafa05o2ef9hl7t5g4jst7/14475401953.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/703fb58f581785fa314870d20e2e2d7f/tozodu.pdf
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae271a01aa---mexigutegexekovixixinar.pdf
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/31520719502.pdf
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/bosorekowapisa.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1db3726736---tojalelusej.pdf
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ffdf56f306---96208267662.pdf
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29a7bebfdd---menixelafukubapovitaz.pdf
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05971b4202841a6b4cdac855f12e93bb/ragupigozip.pdf
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/tevenafenupanibadebopode.pdf
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/55170844972.pdf
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/39065307058.pdf
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31a088b26cc23552769d77b812556f2e/66865413947.pdf
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/jadabitirexatimorarananes.pdf
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/89503986198.pdf
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/mizizet.pdf
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7dbd3032c14682bc7262966baa0ccb/kizudamodi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=design+and+optimization+of+thermal+systems+solution+manual
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1ec.bin
aa81f2f0a9d575fac481d9d76af95355cd9bc80c5037cb658b2844515fec3992
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EC 11220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010be4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123f6.bin
5d9f5a2dd9ffbcf52312e9a94f65738ed9433dac64d4ed946addf7622192612c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F6 16988 bytes