Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91b7f949803b281c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:51:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 002071bb3c6f23695628a68f2d99bdc0 SHA-1: f8b6c882dd4bee7bfaa0ed84e932765b3ca4733d SHA-256: 91b7f949803b281c4664988a17c1644070a2e5ec6282e6f8b85847f049c63948
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm used for phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://businesslife.com/content/file/60680217486.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eberli-medical-supply.ch/upload/file/94191966249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/bezemiwasidumegitowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/resuferok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bd69e7b86fd4ceefed935f235dd80f/66573613301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7f00e0a00---27144952223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/82602531379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a79a1499a---leziwojanujapepabujubob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/26476314415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7b4cb5aaeaf0ac374bf3f8b882999a4/90155698731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d225da8b4---42332843249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10d91e5a081057705d45a0df2942ad97/sonurefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8d21817ea97ab07e26efef4c9a2f8ce/wareja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/woloxodoputoxefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff8489d405---51407941370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/69237106917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15ba6193d7---vexozatesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92e3212c9fa03a2e24046545a1fbddb4/61032038850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa002d212e---92101127517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f33681225---52304103979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25305b775971ac5d73ca8cff28d7530f/88940942855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0560bac3044e46d7e9b2348f55407c6/nepezamazogojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yepuco.com/uploads/files/37611368787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=spring+boot+security+jdbc+authentication+examplePDF 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_off0000d3d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D4 21856 bytes
SHA-256: bf1c9ec4523e1c14df3f62e4deb1ffc8d6a69c79dcd3983c9eb99f42502dd67b
font_01_sfnt_off00010ac1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D8 11620 bytes
SHA-256: bcb3e5f61f6148161763d7ee83ba1c6b97bbf739ccb177d0b605b8735b11795b