Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9191b669f6b9ad52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-08-04 18:45:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 20237c8276d67e50492e95beef6ef807 SHA-1: 828fb87234d6661b45ba7f1fde9ca7c911971206 SHA-256: 9191b669f6b9ad522f2487d57dc0a080724a61a4eaa941f8d0b4be9fcf51e698
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/53849842389.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffcf80b8a58---mirapidabukimolotopulesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d31a1286051b92e1d7f1cdfd9aac0e09/fugonivigomejazexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d3237e191---96346446455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef7acad50fc79ae441ddf2cf6995b6bb/xofiligovanopibevekivowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210701_CC27740F91A826A1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b31d78ca7---zixitijikijadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmaicharmingtravel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizutadijogasamuxogokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plastikacz.cz/soubory/files/73238180020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahuk57kapqk4fghvlo354vfhtl/dasekemexiperarawamizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiteriyakiburien.com/uploads/files/narudumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/guzov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surausa.com/uploads/files/11639753750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9700b6a11---6180023945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb34d4f0eea0e6c71afbfb4630d9ab9d/zosalojidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb5e6f4c16704f58b63533c5a730e1a9/90898938324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72d5b40a1cc327dfa5fb229bd9fb8e70/puxibakuvesikukusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c8d52f7f4---36694250946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m3tpmv98s0jeo36ne177g91661/paneserorasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce82455c6bd---98227859603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083be485c27b---makivexawovakexugajaduban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmconcretemixingplant.ru/d/files/90680168323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocinti.eu/userfiles/files/17019544445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b56f001c22eb5c571b85a1d948f6a917/70485319955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16211240948068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=wonder+by+rj+palacio+book+coverPDF 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_off0000f93e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93E 18664 bytes
SHA-256: 0d6dc9f2680623bff75a53defb003c862a18c2a9800ebfc46712b71b59c5d3f6
font_01_sfnt_off000129e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E1 10776 bytes
SHA-256: d9dbc3c33a0c2068fbcb3c4436ad682a3e8eedb26dc356fd6dccf67802180e98
font_02_sfnt_off00014286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14286 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1