Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91118030abffb400…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-08-22 03:25:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 26018272713e0accd2c55ca12c831419 SHA-1: 51895ec214556a10d8535e65c591a08b2c0a1766 SHA-256: 91118030abffb400282517e958a8e0836517e7a29778c5df8d5dabc318bd3c07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Numerous external URIs were extracted, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+rent+free+letter PDF link annotation
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/pifapakumidepiwaneduwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076afa26cb9e---59257127473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/18692078754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/39197238007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azstorestudio.com/uploads/files/vipebozonurosujanezebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa36530ba8---mepokimekibatudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/77380159707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fc1a6d67bd54d67793c9ad3b5a227eb/nesevagezesubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/puluvujesixejozupawera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freewest.at/gukosepapemefor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srilakshmienterprises.net/uploads/tibereziwudovowijajovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub8dpji3ni7ul6cculj5jpovc1/duvage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734da06a044bea0fed0d67ebdc311dd7/50197710269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9s1ns8musjd8ma08571kmjmfp/dibagafapolezige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/doxudavepemisupuzuroxisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/lebisuwedudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antiochhighclassof70.com/clients/4/4a/4a4d67c83f6236388cbe8d22d68d4f91/File/burugadosotamedofogofotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/61590661287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3kr1b14fn0jffg7u1evqltvoj4/71722477846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc10014c8c---demudugonixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theonejsc.com/userfiles/file/45123899390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/21694079606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41165237082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76bb57e9bd7b999b7121ad0fe8ac873a/60970523906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsnursing.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zatus.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_off0000ce9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE9B 10116 bytes
SHA-256: 262feacb633f446d0ecefe3c3ce083ee55b331ca2be22a2b7b7f25a9d95f8531
font_01_sfnt_off0000e54a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE54A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5C 15796 bytes
SHA-256: 826ab2efdf856c0d5221c5af0c470690cd372cd852ddcb6029fdd8194416c32e