Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91899dcfe0e54d50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:34:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 963122156151cf47f5824de20617a210 SHA-1: c87a90a345a56ef525d7b518851448fc3e55b60f SHA-256: 91899dcfe0e54d50010ae9e008575c66aa74a83b2bf2e6098524243f7aa35dd7
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of urgency and download button lures further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f31d2a8074---8632748816.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/66196909996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9571fde35aa3bb66b3efdf14fbdb2bc2/74107530850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/77627661489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/9242522453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/67740790572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pigjnpep3tf2gpspn90rmmi82r/61734510764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/29468713235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3a8b3ebf4---gikubirisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/37283432070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/55103167745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaytrogiang.com/userfiles/files/tezudenumubakabugasixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee3d6bc283---35631775429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335a20241288e95e47e5c3a3f832ec15/kukogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/679ca2125093506c44773e79c79fbda4/34238909323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/povafulupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/67835020918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8a8d212d6---vuroxewoxexonetenesejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89347c7615f53e5fd0c6693bf053f87f/88468277853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57f6cd228062e9328c1cb0be2d2b9564/bikupizalemegemuxula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hak05arlq2pt74pj2cdstdvcd/netafewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/selotowubodekalukolagazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=free+php+templates+for+ecommerce+websitesPDF 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_off0000ede5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE5 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 3bf91cfba553fd9a21f28085c55a4416e34f1f7ea1752a3ae65f53181546236e
font_01_sfnt_off000106c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C1 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 3d60a9b5b7b2b94fddc0bf562eef2d586e31dfee8cd74c90418ce2c77f446f7b
font_02_sfnt_off000135ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1