Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91779e804389ed96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:59:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 91311e82b228f2707808e89d89d7aaff SHA-1: 2f5ea2d38a3611866ce1e96fd4dc4912251ed674 SHA-256: 91779e804389ed96832bb752805004c895b4ee49200c9cdfa163ffc292f3f474
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting sites. These links are likely intended to lure users to malicious destinations, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=install+linux+apps+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/lemagonunujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/vakijowikotorute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alburigiott.it/userfiles/files/18925040968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/37777720271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happy-playground.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/81004831598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digbijoynath.in/uploads/userfiles/files/madomupaduxesizegulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/49826617426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/xerixepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/zelinetugozedupeluvivasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144606188cd5---doxileribetaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakura-bashi.com/uploads/files/202109100950297609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisinfo.ru/uploads/content/files/22734865883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getdol.com/page_data/file/gadawatofogibuwasipebujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/robavijipijovazivuzexeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaruzofiguzerigudapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiksha24.com/userfiles/files/zelemowafanisosiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff8436caf1---lukizogigefetuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5bef5f12d8091e92867d81c02622646/sesulipozutukusukikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganteltechnology.com/system/userfiles/file/nurupizamuxifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scarpatti.com/files/41162437736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilatesyoga.hr/files/files/tajewowovirupudonoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/xadunevubalivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/riletujaveberefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxdyzs.com/userfiles/files/52237774878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralatemples.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78059733311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133efc1cc7e4---4536748381.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_off0000cd90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD90 16236 bytes
SHA-256: b257070dfd91f669d8155d6db045877e51a666e39ebfa0d2d8d6f5fe5f014d44
font_01_sfnt_off0000f770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF770 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F87 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 05729495946140a73d84b93f5559c9ea1293f8499d122637e37b9fc41c5c29bc