Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91c24a67aeaca482…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-26 00:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e9aa822444ba926a5d9f04edb45a04cb SHA-1: 8b69eb752d74d4d66bf985b40aa28b2b2ec94f92 SHA-256: 91c24a67aeaca48296734503b572be4e0b004ad65dda9905522e54f3ff8f79cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bf4e39b495320158e20c602ed1e58a9/mujofajup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/58703690278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/15593220630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e12b2cc607---62460502499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/99390279471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychebiengoduykhuong.com/media/ftp/file/dikivigob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienhasteel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/rowobafebugujuzemevoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socukorglutamatmentesfuszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66608877940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfb4ff75er1ed67vgh4mvcjik0/balikijejaforikavomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/67045532353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608513554a3d0---64302091815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienanglass.vn/upload/files/51663743975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/92802967639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/8461956510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbbc9ae3bd40a07447ec1e96b3625898/pubitolafopojenojexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21e0f916ccce1c79eb7ded35add84ccc/gudizagunoxumevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905457ba512---7429500801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210726172518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mellorymotors.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxadomomofivaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/pibokipurama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apotekatia.ba/fajlovi/nemawabeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/4237099693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/50594252785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=simplify+the+expression+and+find+the+value+if+x+is+equal+to+2PDF 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_off0000edd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E8 16260 bytes
SHA-256: f993fda08f6123165d0b149bfb7b0a9e068f50e266035103f232fca1b20775ff
font_02_sfnt_off00012f7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F7F 11484 bytes
SHA-256: 028a1ab0f23dbcac6f4cc89568b231f954d92ef01c9cdf0ab7341d7ff5030d14