Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91912b3ec736e1f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 02:41:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: f10326e0f2f53eb56089ddab98cac8af SHA-1: 9afadce8eb7fdf640c30de1cb02310528ca9b927 SHA-256: 91912b3ec736e1f62967e3b50b985d748f79e259a1b3503ddbaf4c7a680b5b22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous unknown URLs strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvj7vu761ebcnr17jpf2ie5f01/nukixibexetikutimakilotaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607428158c669---donavave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/babavidorexisibolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2424692c1f72518c28829208a0c7604/navixelojuginikamopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsportedinburgh.org/userfiles/files/rawigozixolufakiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/21166741052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098af4978ce1---runezeraketamulajizasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0hn8ab03ikp5jnth7qbrt1vls3/28342683962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/56025678599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf25d0e910---2045957684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudagoxakejeletiramuketez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84b3778a118bcdc524ff07bfc6be7521/rewifusozowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba2298b0068d844790b84c7110604917/862171072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/10140127456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32e94e882422b56b90e494be926dae29/xisizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1c917d13f---tusikigisixitowirevetajup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e4fd17172---5246916123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-camper.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83162901056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b47c23831aebb056b1eccf300cf84bfa/safexefobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6a3e1a6b00356709897482267f912bb/66736519253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/seneligerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcfa311764---bajufaxogugopifigidarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=mosque+in+the+worldPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF442 17860 bytes
SHA-256: d57a9182450c6b12383e15f19760c0b6c10552191228582ff91774f7de4b5668
font_01_sfnt_off0001101d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101D 18100 bytes
SHA-256: ad35a86b17e4dae8b6cc4e54eca64bbda577966d5ba426c940b7ab96313dea28
font_02_sfnt_off00013dbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DBC 10508 bytes
SHA-256: fcba35ab67c72254cd0e726ecf32b4f33a67e1f5fa31a640d43ae08922dfbf88
font_03_sfnt_off0001556b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1556B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1