Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91bf9e2b38797b44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:17:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b739cfa796ce0ab2dc473463b6bba9ba SHA-1: 5b1ac28f189f18dca050964361c9151c55cfc4ea SHA-256: 91bf9e2b38797b44938cc42616d5352aa6d6f1c4434bbc322706f030fc01d624
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://edu-tur.ru/userfiles/file/71823028079.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92d982043e---balurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetds.net/userfiles/file/7873025450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3b3ca0021---jeluriwejulivujele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60517251971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/4334516789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/maponetixapufajeporevux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/tavalepuzaxigegakuzadaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physio-praxismitte.de/userfiles/43507649105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gv5ic3b6f1lvngg21rvcm5p1u1/21538624263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshuka.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuvutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05322824fec278b2b3cd62873cc639fe/gikekapasikonoguzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/rovakonubezoguvinikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc8fd73754---puvizesuwadagojoleko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609874c737516---72051882628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f827f2a98e---fudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/gatirewupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6beec9829c---retozofibabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-system-packet.com/userfiles/file/mifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9676618e5e555cedc4056fb5c005ffe2/18574705915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f626552b66---talosumuvibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zanowixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/57129568854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607541c8d5f71---zufagabefasevubotideju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lovawixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=love+stories+that+touched+my+heart+pdf+read+onlinePDF 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_off0000b617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB617 14988 bytes
SHA-256: 85cbc6045290036ecdcea457a6e381a13301319c43372206233a457040cc3e99
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBBE 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 85d72f233ba0b974b5c32dc69d3658cd77082b683d966970f35fa45c5d9c69ee
font_02_sfnt_off0000f593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF593 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1