Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91d6925db5f98d1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:26:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: d964ef09f241998c5556d74c940a8b2e SHA-1: dc06c75274f4f4aacf1589aba5fe91879ce902de SHA-256: 91d6925db5f98d1f63d27e2811d5a172005cd5b0c138e292dfe58ee9150b0858
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as hosting for further malicious PDFs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3ds+rom+citra PDF link annotation
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43a0aabb1fe1a7cebd19b64ca5d13645/76752064631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motacademy.it/file/wopepinuzupezebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2a67bb103---diloxunatovexawurinirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcclassof81.com/clients/0/0a/0a45bd3013a8cc77df817aa526a911b1/File/jawuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f6a3b101dbdb1ab70a3abc6dfaf9033/kubetinatame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f19665dae8---xumufunojilegemoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bg1lih3glokgc4o4sqbm269nsd/63565879590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802f2de8e7c---jexapeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/xeseka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57c63d42ab---89417197743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890209bbd18---fuwuvalade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bc04bb463ad53ac7d7066ed722b613e/lutigukebazizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab86e3ab0c---53792845021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c59c879faeeeb42ed16a3400551d4a5/zobolurus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkgui17naeslukdldso669san4/33773231829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f5af22a21---46384408956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35v9nqlr7q66tj1d0spk926io2/zapekilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e40b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE40B 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 6f9ac28a67f8ecb9102531c88c05ed75ce347d0645bb65cc22cb2a0b62f0e86a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001136f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1136F 19180 bytes
SHA-256: 43e46057283b4ab0aaf5ca4bcf0435a336550814a1d0bbc656bd9a9737a55b08