Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91d994b8803f4851…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 00:19:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: d30868a95bf7805b7c096ba2c2d8d10f SHA-1: 26a6e55add17173fbdd623a485aebc510e42a527 SHA-256: 91d994b8803f485100c37db0d7efda81ce958230710bbf3522cb0eef99311826
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a link farm structure, combined with ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly indicates malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect the user, while the link farm aims to obscure the ultimate destination, possibly leading to phishing or malware download sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://cuahuyhoang.com/media/ftp/file/40089699959.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qe6es6tcofrq50n2n4qlmvmqlf/jowadokesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18af497869f60997369d1564d02115a7/57898415929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/pikuruwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021071813362782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ca810980342daec95ee3bf86262622b/netubokogelomozigefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cncforginghammer.com/d/files/59484920605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/92201326944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bankkartya.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35025891140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/meruxazozosujepupifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfehr99t0tr6ni7ic73hoi0dk3/14864134819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/39595953385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/jesomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0762ea42e7---dupomobulepugazovagasuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797f78afac5---xogatabokadoxatutolaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beccaro.it/userfiles/files/tevojitilumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/29245395549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc6bf814e4---dexezexibavinada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilenugeratefonamuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac29f9ba05b---gujakewozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/262425b6065fe7c6382c055c896df378/66761034843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3773ebde22e63ada251ae8913a0e9c70/76863632762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607533bf6a86a---56272801147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/25876565004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=biblia+de+estudio+diario+vivir+reina+valera+1960+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_off0000f8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B7 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 1484a58426dab95b99811f3a53b9d1c1989fd3a1dc7f70e242d3f37c9c4edd9c
font_01_sfnt_off0001135e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B70 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 77e57e45ab45458641ddd6c761ed2c5a86c65d25617d7d7f1f5b55bfabfbeb2a