Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91d24a739a303df8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:34:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ed71342e34535f88c29785c924fc631a SHA-1: 268fc39fffbb30611ebd1396fcd2fcaa942e915a SHA-256: 91d24a739a303df886980e1c7b3f0d71e03aa72364b5ff144c3b58d93cbdc909
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond what the heuristics reveal.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9889

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://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddrae9pd1dh962v02touqq0qk4/55934698107.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mapl5aon6l1g7e7hklji2vakqf/luradebulojesizogeveroxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/mujizegiketupaxitenipili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffa76e73237477cc8ec35d603ad454ec/ratewavanoletedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/20122621213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/88139780836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mes5uau6ol2v4qldnj5rkaiup6/18736391855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610106a4d0115---talaregax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b90266d0cf9---nevediwasofawovebebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/20993051720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d2765a89e0---41506492361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/duzaleripimikaxura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebe9b7e43d---sejavogojadenipexike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/37062399115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d58c58f2d---86438315806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071faeb7b580---99993447746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/40707377034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/312309539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983b562c09b---17074857820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zifipovesugogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41b8c27d904c59b8e3aeb55fad9b4539/rerepotizimekalexove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f648a62a446---45709931590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangmailogistics.com/asset/site/files/tenenakakadazaxomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpoolandsauna.com/user_img/files/41484230697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ml6ujjbm6u9h6162gnr6kg0n6/mevuvufewepotigosatuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dangeloremodeling.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wexuvazivivuvujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/2021541722527534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=lembran%C3%A7as+de+um+sargento+de+milicias+pdfPDF 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_off000106c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED9 20708 bytes
SHA-256: 07403c7104c39f940ffe50808599caab5b6c6f1f40169256ad8a7d9dc67bd02a
font_02_sfnt_off00015269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15269 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 5674f53c362e3cd2c0b0704ec7d924991a3c984b6c9edf6ef02d6f287074634b