Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91cfa913a35b12d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-11 05:44:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f03d4ab724daed00d25f672ad4488015 SHA-1: ca663600e4930be1368ada0c8043e73a3b21e4d4 SHA-256: 91cfa913a35b12d15e22a68500f469a535c13ee645fceb8f7b4140ec63e8c558
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected 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 external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites, possibly as part of a broader phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://atlas-consulting.ro/fckeditor/fisiere/file/63194770978.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ee22c38dc---vaxoditanebamigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/67733328730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jm3ifn1bp36v4lagdcl28pas7i/rovusifukimoresor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/jolumibudefoxasipolovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/39182533615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-venise.com/italie_documents/files/ruxavavupojimejakefepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/zukipuvelolakabafinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qqhanoman.com/contents//files/72544911953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c64beb951---wibogologebexuxejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9ca302f827---82577592356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/182079a77cd3a6427d65ddc2aaee1b78/fowugelepulezuvikeziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovth.ch/userfiles/files/57708904864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/53404899138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptichile.cl/userfiles/file/febarukutifajowoziwadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b5fd68cc72281e1fc03f374f91589d3/525370601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b85b10bf40---23077186790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/vipegejetujipabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/rodenipeguwavevaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gowojavipipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defanidasakezilomujiwela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210716_280CD83AFA07C90D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/43850096257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/luxodogumanune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+authorization+letter+to+get+birth+certificatePDF 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_off0000fcf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11505 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 601895fb996ab0a847e9c11c87a3943d207658ed303dc23da5f377f9be38334e
font_02_sfnt_off0001413c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1413C 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 642b3586b7e3ade8d070e07b50c864b2e0166e717cf6afdeb5c203351ea20e4b