Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 891f7cafa7be79c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:53:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: de53ea8f2e50d7c7614a61de961bba28 SHA-1: fabd9776e746351f4bbfe9b5cd868decd96a4354 SHA-256: 891f7cafa7be79c3b81b4ee849d8b2bf5b17e1f407e77a6d99a00643d5d5a350
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://e-sportis.com/images/upload/nizobodufidozawifil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b469f713556---joluzupenodenowuturuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.frank-diagn.hu/userfiles/files/70954665766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/nelakibubawomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/kesumowimuxamejipugosoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/goseririnolasufigilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomistretta.com/userfiles/files/32041593684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b6d6720c3---27540831879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/90561575096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents/files/94865586340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4102aa47f8151364089e9924a73d270e/40335449320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokebarslo.com/uploads/files/gewuzudakevuxase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d3746a400a---41060050551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be336ae7b5605b84613f13211c313d96/kexadawinonogema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/52373550612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/377c1c82223084bcdc97e7542029d748/sanebojel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15105883383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/21044630616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/pebidipanuwexigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lighthouseofworship.com/clients/44803/File/48540710387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2dad44774---45315680131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3347c928d---mulutefexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/4614735382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210626103250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=class+9th+science+question+paperPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000c950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC950 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e162.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE162 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 7eed6006de4d1d47cfa81b69b027ae8e209a9445ec7f0aece0098ad059be41fb
font_02_sfnt_off0001117c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117C 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 0cc8292b965030efc518a8e0395c2a5b46301c9c15c8d7f113a24dfb76f05e2e

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