Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91617415773b318e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 13:31:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b93464b2161db2246f96a59ad21f7a21 SHA-1: 1cbfca13c88f22f53154e6b0e560d808532c86f5 SHA-256: 91617415773b318e32795207f3023b6316f380813f9ea0263418ba2f1ed08b32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further payloads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/tirufurotulowefew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b7016e3c27---gefunazugidivinutakorufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/jiguropadufutavozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079893ca68a7---76730327920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/levizofudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/japejeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34eee58af13d6f5b248d0db6628eb79c/wopupewevabij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianztc.ro/files/file/94831987310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/35765799173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9d8956352---xupotivobujolinemafawojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americusfelderfamily.com/clients/0/0c/0c5e5e27a4da9db51eb23c24aa0fa274/File/buxidarawojeganerulomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/91212841015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westboroughhigh76.com/clients/b/bc/bc4984db1d461a603911d7e4814e3e59/File/zotidagasejawonaxelofigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthivatlieuhoanthien.com/upload/files/11935265920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/womadezijekorulesawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jirujemekutavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37508347892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094f0addb551---vojutebogagakugikisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/24772597542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wekazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab15500575---22881365879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ca5238db2---xabavijobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6011cf750c0bdbfb91defdeed354e55/tukaxedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=best+rated+skin+care+line+for+mature+skinPDF 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_off00010246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10246 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5D 10884 bytes
SHA-256: d743e93bf8c0c372f47804b62fb9f2a052c87017a3901991e55f6d893d51f9d6
font_02_sfnt_off0001338b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1338B 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 40d57df3ecb63e35ce2600ab1a6e14d8ad17dfaba49be13e44d957e64a29235e