Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91b68c97a115571a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-08-12 18:49:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 68597ddf2469e54cc276f6f25f4ce91a SHA-1: 49a12dc07ff12eae181320128c4f9c31f814b48b SHA-256: 91b68c97a115571a993dc6087433d4bcd67663de208cfd9f700af76c3dc0e098
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier also returned a high probability of maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=environmental+science+miller+spoolman PDF link annotation
    • http://richwoods1969.com/clients/861079/File/jiruropepuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/xuxowazujuturodejike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qteesutj2je1aaq9tll8e83pd/64364676991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calebdobe.com/clients/875189/File/sorosanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210727_3EC2DD626B4306F4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/15481020381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b393e3410f1---83678399474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/14759383140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/fixobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1a2bb0577a542739fdd485e94387bcd/48484121556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/xitikekexagutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078601936d02---jixamixipodusoziwozikovev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuaspa.com/upload/images-content/files/letozegozezakuxuzixatune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/doxosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75cla8fmfkp9s0k80ispk4d3d3/35991927402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d327b08755a11c4db53f867f4ad45bc1/xifefebejevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaded159e47---85992082412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fe6a63e3c---wogekazapezukoziju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/29840918725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f97de19e97311bf88e70cfe939e2eec3/57001874819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mr54fk9qk3nebn9romvo3pd4n2/22790381602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161002f73beacf---sunowofugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a901537ee9f---78491058411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c21d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC21D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA2F 15504 bytes
SHA-256: 2b2166e99082294e1c52800dc18f7e58a24bdcf86ebfa872d5bbb538c5efaa87
font_02_sfnt_off00010214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10214 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 4c1dbd582d80aa0ef45e376a1356155fa65aca85d14024128c69bf8cc2b872a2