Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91367d73bee3da11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-31 18:07:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7966f7155eda3e2f5b229264be3e9fae SHA-1: 213609e63ec4836284dd680d612881f1a4e034cd SHA-256: 91367d73bee3da1173086e84dde88a9870dcfdb7649adad20c6c2109ee29e346
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for hosting malicious content or phishing pages. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18ef1d1dcd---vopak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/60652641000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091371f1f462---kopenevojapojufaporoxiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/sisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0538c9e5ee76208a6c84575a8a414d04/76677455034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rotudavid.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84646821380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/tazafusawixerut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55ad7e667232315014b02557e5ce35e4/xatokanoxetevupun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d566f6c883---datexefafiguluzekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c537d6527e6f971cb253ee1a629a5c5/48794850801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/80050162961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/si5smahg0kle4jj36d7a1mfgj6/63555656521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermangroupcorp.com/clients/3/38/389628ddbd62db2fa1e4299ecdfc1861/File/komufilinexagezibemubulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toastwarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dinonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856a0d80a2b---60574231097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn2s64q4mq6j5g81vlu6n5aa8a/sikiroretukimigodome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/vilajuxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifeteacher.tw/uploads/files/202108292009074297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odumakus.com/uploads/files/27914697584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/47531787073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/57706808016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29ef18715e806e05fb0aba21f3332356/9379379362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5cba731ebe---10916845993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/namuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb16144ebdefb75d04fe03f2a90fc860/rikiwudedilinemamoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=re+employ+me+loginPDF 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_off0000ed50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED50 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 5e450b66c7fa58eafd6277e22c74718378955de46a6ca0a99d4d98e04fdd58cf
font_01_sfnt_off00010426.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10426 19240 bytes
SHA-256: 47bae128a6f02997b486f5e1e80beeef0cedbbf79df62017ee6c8c7cfd20ca74
font_02_sfnt_off000135fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1