Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91daf21442815e24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:36:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 7122bb69088c7c211bf6fed815b272a8 SHA-1: d8cc102425425293ffeddbe79bfba435240a4d42 SHA-256: 91daf21442815e2420f23d1041e4ee3ce1ec989b64c2b996c841a00f7a600803
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classification and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the true destination and leverage potentially compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ea2123fb7---82549958002.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hmed.vn/upload/files/wamurijekatatiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikdercollegeofpharmacy.com/scp/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/27504952940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/fovudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/95423940704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9a1acb71039344d0e4e7ad7c2b9f53e/35095174667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_6A85AC12DDD446FA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/96467592508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/resofajoviparaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109031400286043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/gulesapaxudexojemukikuwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solis.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51136663245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/73510786243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/35167778766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienmayminhchau.vn/uploads/news_file/11190709041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613586bb2c937---59940888562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-souz.com/userfiles/file/30787660630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2955db3cf892656d9fd73d54fd07bd8e/fapesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a488656dc7---85316396846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130cb3335d5f---84771332832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrukseo.pl/userfiles/file/soxali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613363dec8ebe---24133469109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28640891779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lemawaniwitijiguwubakogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/93138031032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=view+notification+log+androidPDF 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_off0000daa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA5 19232 bytes
SHA-256: 17546f3105354174288e463c72df53ea9a48c9e1b041d00cd90984b61d311467
font_01_sfnt_off00010c6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6F 10540 bytes
SHA-256: dcf452d54112b805c1493f8970b3aa84495e4ce22b635384c2a533b2d349bb98
font_02_sfnt_off00012471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12471 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1