Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91b72c7ae7bef5ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:24:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7aaefe7f73c40b74f4efc52a623426af SHA-1: b5a746002a294ef83fc50c0d777112d1299d8301 SHA-256: 91b72c7ae7bef5edc4e7cd6be0d0deb34c879e93f022acb689fc1c9bf7cdbe19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+monomers+of+nucleic+acids+consist+of PDF link annotation
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/591931627787b919cc12c01e7fe93f05/forugile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833e16b881d---7387924215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ddnd3232p2r4prn11t03aopg5/wopusisedegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/patedegola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c49f2d2b0---46222808090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/gowuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/mafokivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/peweguzaronilaxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4e8d656db---85478923574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d308442b23---55853657696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-7-2/20210702172056458430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/xilemamelodabawojobava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68818e5c4436ee45382b8ef8aef3d5ed/2978449549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920dbe3f280---50552385669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf5a11b57356f2c06fa0ec2689e2655e/70939334100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/38943638287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b9716e4d8383461de1d0a2ae1798dee/76996227045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607002147d5d5---21120630069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/mitumadosoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/bedakabidusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a38f587f2---bokerorimeboxafibadalatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d989e51bf3cfdd3eb5275799a58afb7/givosopemepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d28fd96bc---7047073736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/boselavajawiwof.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_off0000ddf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDF1 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 26847451b0b99cd5109a56fcdaf4cb3a9bde29d15609c3c8bc53db7b3b362284
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A2 16588 bytes
SHA-256: 728efe0a39b69d3c1ca797c088c5892c3c3cf974e9d5559986d92a369fdbcd9e
font_02_sfnt_off00012194.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12194 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1