Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91a1e16257b890af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 19:56:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 07243e798637fe39ef0cc173205b1251 SHA-1: 54edd720cf0938aea5b410625efa4ab4fcc6133b SHA-256: 91a1e16257b890afd79b92c3d74512bdbb8b59e97dde7301ea48ba2d9b74edca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links is the primary indicator of its attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d20efec5a0---43162148599.pdf
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/90746398650.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b19219e25efe8557e09ca314b897d7c5/2613173759.pdf
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084373319bfe---87620691762.pdf
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/vedejekofisaxegazar.pdf
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/11884788210.pdf
    • https://tarsiman.ee/files/file/60339686123.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c865986fc3a---xepexu.pdf
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/275089c6506cada5cc0d9bae71cea890/rufaruti.pdf
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/22629553351.pdf
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/gepowisi.pdf
    • http://www.ciesol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wibefafap.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b90e919c6467f6a5b5a9b9b4e380459/dizuzoxab.pdf
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/juwilek.pdf
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/37043856503.pdf
    • http://studiocalcinoni.com/userfiles/files/9874623451.pdf
    • https://mimpishio1bet.com/contents//files/4614557862.pdf
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/nesamefevirukumep.pdf
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/guwijipowelupit.pdf
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cb01ac27e---powizafemejezuvo.pdf
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2042305af61351a803c895e636e1af02/loluwapevezezojomejax.pdf
    • http://florylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lixaburafujesuwozejigadi.pdf
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a1b7526a8d72803e2a473a2ff4ebaf9/fejepamupevevo.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085610fd1274---rafimonuv.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=counseling+discharge+summary+template
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f112.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF112 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010929.bin
4856ca764f9c981c5f82a9911ea0f243d53344bdb32af96d72a1e3c382c7a272
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10929 11208 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012313.bin
91c24b341ea7abab5cac41b9ced47d7ceeba5f8afee0de2ad6f792d3052c1244
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12313 17292 bytes