Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91720a03a0f4e719…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:22:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9d94254c2534b0cdfe5bf4af5956c58f SHA-1: ae678c1bd2ccf6fdafee26609e47aa3075b04033 SHA-256: 91720a03a0f4e719a5cccbec2ada5db873a566e9276a8719685c2df79eb5fa10
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple compromised upload paths suggests a broad distribution effort.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://fivetc.net/uploads/files/zavononunewekefobavako.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t96l9r4ckrmmvoe3cdu29hl1c2/29702227219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/lamidoriruja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104aa56d1d9f---77106021459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88882128242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e20a96ff08---95979123454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bc0d3327d0b4c3ea1e536c0e6be2dc4/48797918923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/selefokini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760ddc9e7a5---mezetujufivobuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/68695361119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/23671346089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayinntorino.com/userfiles/files/konoxuwijokugazixugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fccb1bd47c---nojepirevogugubira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/FCKeditor/file/29371500004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/47010208821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b8d281cab---34327684430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adrfarysz.pl/userfiles/file/xozena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/fivajuximitevekonezurigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/24913215832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/84671103389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53b456d0658a10c2be6573517d0ee7ec/97149446802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/13344538594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qov7d0k0u4iilg65p09tut8j9/22780605573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6a1a763eac---72266660166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/90062349981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=old+phone+books+pdfPDF 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_off0000efb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C7 18828 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4294b8d609c101fb752f3607448d88f2ac24d3874b529ee1e086a2071664ae
font_02_sfnt_off00013884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13884 10400 bytes
SHA-256: a7b88b6774be49d34ce2cbdd9d30cc973b3fcb8ac9eec6bbb672b99edfe11fbf