Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91811d20fd8e1999…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-27 23:58:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 257498cd466743df8f88bf57aac520ab SHA-1: da7005851560d7a1c42b03351a3a45b8ee138322 SHA-256: 91811d20fd8e199984773aad0959ac22d0616910ab14741a826585cb45a7ba1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/bepom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flemingfamilies.org/clients/8/8a/8af36a28baf44bfc7b8a7004fb4eaede/File/56152938835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608803c592160---59689005006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082af2ed54fb---30429083880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921931621ba---63268886193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defaico.com/d/files/26920280663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omvtr6cacjndp237i9789o32mm/15345078127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/54749478187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074169bd8d0e---wigewerizimekamelodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsong.vn/uploads/files/jepores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a320e30481868775b3733552a04032e2/wubizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambatownship.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokavuxifugiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhorizontours.com/userfiles/files/1855381376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/zinafonakexujukefakidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/sebusubevipetededavajopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e0ec9f3fa---fukasediserenotibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8kpl2b9jaq5m8ipo7kvsund9l/84625832966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/visimirebozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0e3325d3b4---jiverizijigeguvobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/girosaxudanumagobefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/76796222860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd7cf12a26---88102929329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63944635844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+super+mugen+v2+downloadPDF 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
stream_003_off0000dffa.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xDFFA 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 0051572f5545d0c0223ba2998b79616211e2f49e9fb503068f7e8a91f594a364
font_01_sfnt_off00010d3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12552 11056 bytes
SHA-256: d7d54a132300c9a7c0965eafe52a7a7a5e70beee693fa2a3e4ecd58995e668a4