Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91a62f1d88da7617…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-08-07 17:01:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6f9f8322d3405adf26d05fb993e2a55c SHA-1: e66b83a3f1f09a4554e72cd1fe6d12d4fb83d71a SHA-256: 91a62f1d88da761756d289d26db22ebcaaf2bf38ef8e436adb8f8381fea1c7c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure designed to lead users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baa37c50536ca704cfc52691bd7a705e/44294799917.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24235323050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/3869951023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oo8l1vea62o2g7qmbes0nqv383/60987630872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/63576684741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/41097085990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19bb178bda---megowitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608171b558ac0---3322822531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fad8b0476---91870836119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/92072906994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106192346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0def79f6f---luwovonupafixirukemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phpirateboosters.com/clients/867602/File/susaxufinozol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brmc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/83018663996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9403bb1c8e411291f3ea47139f0c2c1/55988499727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l97dnqm47v26nho4aosm1u0124/74920327843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/motebisutaniruzurulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inruho.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejadefuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/87301171866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89dfea960c---15819301397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/vevafusasugoxeped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/54176260045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/74167600011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/gobuzutimanofabizedan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee78e86473283f45f493dca5f5c2d8f1/94077388501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=hcr-20+scoring+manualPDF 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_off0000fbef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBEF 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 70935e2057b71146efb2f8004241c5b9336f1a41c500005279c1684751ac99b4
font_01_sfnt_off00011486.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11486 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C98 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 3ec3e3b9f38bbe17afba214ed24c98519cfd23192114fd0d554a1febe86c0149