Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91c3cd1167b46906…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 13:15:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3750bfb47e9a905ccb8e838aa1c163b0 SHA-1: aeea491f140f3be5492ab893775181bebce8ac1e SHA-256: 91c3cd1167b46906c6bcab2259761831297cfd5759586e3190fa42a8b28e7323
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://www.asslar.de/downloads/surizem.pdf
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0da5601ea6---74575390624.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608397cc0397b---zezunufa.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070424e69fa7---paxuxasugexarume.pdf
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/34477653860.pdf
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/68339188035.pdf
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/rovajekiwivef.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmkpo3mecdtnug7kg1262dgcu9/polit.pdf
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c5b5bdf43741a00bd4162ee9121534/rekoze.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6965975aa5---wogapakokag.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e216730223---39904760564.pdf
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607f84f0cd78e---garolazidaridawupanagugi.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8eb767e1fe151f58be4e5ccbb3193bc/77872924634.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4756c11583---nepizojukelonabuvaf.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3baa5bab4f---19979769577.pdf
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/30536030763.pdf
    • http://sapaelitehotel.com/webroot/img/files/56901853084.pdf
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/79427825091.pdf
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/womiw.pdf
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/93822375838.pdf
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/telonetulenobem.pdf
    • https://bettyloupaints.com/userfiles/files/bujit.pdf
    • http://toastwarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/5280164504.pdf
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab642ea53a9---24483213985.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+national+portrait+gallery
    • 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_off0000db24.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB24 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f336.bin
b099f9ef87295c3a7d97f04cfa50b83118f4163d8c1c3edc6d95460735b28c45
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF336 17640 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001209a.bin
8c7fb11a40c9c50944b4c4ab310a73e912a3d7bf7057409bf94a4724dc1f8a53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1209A 10440 bytes