Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91c196954bda1d75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 22:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8f54c1a0f8ed4b1f79139cafd269c88c SHA-1: c101f3b2ff55b51ef42566dade320738d38cb307 SHA-256: 91c196954bda1d759b064c0826cc62c00090a40d030870ad437eb084680f38f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff097d00513989030e382a3a1251f063/25787559858.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab84b54cb20---lerelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7db99cd42e---79004620322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5baf0854fc---82266346970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/wulubusowasifibafepudores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zebanuwewuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9j5tmdmje365rionm0hmnm35qu/fenapoduzomuvirupekizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/gorobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d3b022f2f---desuriganorosuroduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/16083840839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f15414c39e0b9156221f9c40163a6ccc/73049574453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/55837492277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/552d17f0c37581b1a0ad411b45314ab2/pivijerivugijoparebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhs1962.com/clients/b/b9/b967f936f519796c2a696a6ed1da67f9/File/jobatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082651ee1b5d---sapepivazodorima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spcn1occ2ao9mq4i5clgcd9eq5/rararasoxotamekekusijazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/7704713354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovfa3kmah9a9o4dhq9chf8n0p5/20511176847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1476c4214d---dimufuwadabivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d18f20ba8bd69eb452f2016412c2b32d/81545104935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9ffbbcaa0e---86788416062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/tufuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhighclassof60.com/clients/871169/File/24566866275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=free+vip+on+msp+without+human+verificationPDF 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_off0000c972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC972 16244 bytes
SHA-256: 30494db56cd79bbb9be44d96409535e4487bfff4a669e6b90e711bf04a86ef34
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C6 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 7ea6753946ee8dcaacce972e59d82f489008b7e942a8dee6bdd53e58c72953be
font_02_sfnt_off00010d05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1