Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91c03f085d155037…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 16:38:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f00962da58a8dfaa7d152e23227e9157 SHA-1: 66c556abdd9aa1c371aaa75da2de8229ae95a502 SHA-256: 91c03f085d1550375ff682a2f009a04c1d0a166335f873a66f25be88ccad8a2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious payloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/293dcd13e1a796f2274120b6a794afcd/tenonikuvakivulabulidubaj.pdf
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709b76dcbb9---liridurifinujatiko.pdf
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb0beb9e41---61172356225.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607343a79cde4---jibagudefunusi.pdf
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/36626745078.pdf
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/wewusiwitagewa.pdf
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eecc6c17e1---fipilikuruneze.pdf
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b91878af5---povuxijemaka.pdf
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/34712594441.pdf
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160b5582be3545---zotewonivulozonasawares.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c873349d0c2---labanasadigos.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f22b10b307---53950947511.pdf
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/76083879653.pdf
    • https://scriptdd.com/_file/file/72326730779.pdf
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b8422899db757b8d0ac1331e31f55b0/52817700149.pdf
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32726861528.pdf
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2gl5list7lqueq2vt7ck28a37/faduxivuxupap.pdf
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/73969089587.pdf
    • https://unserbiokorb.ch/userfiles/file/62777456233.pdf
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/85514927159.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a9217942809cf94e1dade17d74390a/99481170139.pdf
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/253b1cd3a4b0aa73081d990bf6d2bbab/62127533549.pdf
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///jomunix.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cebda67ec81---donazanawenudi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=read+one+piece+906
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014e9e.bin
e8aef92021e43ed52236cd5fd58e371ab15af525f95836a6c3cc29ee2d408b72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E9E 10600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000166bf.bin
edb98b2a1c9bbac45486186888e77ad021163be76c606b3aa967ef43b0ea0eb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166BF 17372 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00019473.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19473 16792 bytes