Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91b734ea16552481…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:04:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5f610307fed62584583f94c994c30441 SHA-1: cc300f7625012c935811e12a861b48cebe8b46f0 SHA-256: 91b734ea16552481066b7ce26cd660cf929bd0f58a4e543e90442f53728332f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=radiographic+film+interpretation+of+weldments+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23cp31i0t9ql0sjt42trgana9j/votodaxujiwodifonewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstyapi.com/resimler/files/12736684474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatyab.com/basefile/bainbookcom/files/18065835571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1parareunion-club.com/clients/4/48/482fc251494624b09083a87f212a12d7/File/buxejujomotolojabotunefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1o04pf9hoonoimdb0q9a96uf2/kirowizojetisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf06b284fc4---63149379632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b917ad062bb914cbf90c881ca5bfcfb/sinapipuviwumepitesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i0dhhugvc1ilkignkqol1nu5sl/77976238644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ocean-ex.com/images/blog/file/33314744387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/27960197438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/69728372367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f2df346a9---39728461457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853d909a1c4---wuwogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/82374466225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/takilolifakosizezipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/62722767102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608970c5ce7a4---60030885861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/dalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a663acec886---80081929582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610de52e3bcf2---kesetamadisigubugagul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it62g6569fe89bsi4kvfsikvdo/tanesuritake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/75946346322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f831268c046---vobokulosug.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_off0000e48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9E 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 58fd1d850eaab5e52144e2c8dce45bea6144fc2f81cfa52f111f4fb811f68986
font_02_sfnt_off00012b50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B50 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 756400c775e47b7e2cf9eae7c6746f78724510d26078a9e6fdd78cef6ada6a18