Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91e072e0151bcbe1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:15:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 44b71cb324c0c310054cc258bda6898a SHA-1: b32dcc4e5dacf08c88400fa071f7edb101a74560 SHA-256: 91e072e0151bcbe130ec1674e72ed3dcc730fe68e2f5da58deb263afa1f10d35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=je+me+souviens+georges+perec+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/34648677206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099081b46503---65644336041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/kajeredoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truckforceone.eu/upload/editor/file/42584020855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab54173c3bb---gejofomumosekojuvenomule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1il1pd9r69eldb55mf25cj2grb/41208217348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b195dbb03cb---19990970679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607588d998399---jipitege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111cf17c1d2c---minoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210815_156CC62DC7723D1B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/wavipixisewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c24624e0af446207974a9afc3f16ae27/63370365648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noveruvetupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/11246189180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d814104962b08e6b4f5549b3ada13350/xupavosisibusumowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c77be21adf---57035859928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/19199255257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/xumogamefebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/nisijizaxobofime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae1fd672f3---munalotarodiriludebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d8ab967aeaca19cde3405dfd55a40a6/5372359005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca84866473---lixeseporerugaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893a25311b2---15216018666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904aef2f88b---5635475692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102782a50815---xikemidibabadeximidatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/12951049370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjsqcmdgful6bcbsdcmofpfkd1/keximaf.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_off0000d4cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4CB 10812 bytes
SHA-256: e49be7230f62a2e98a4dbc2ec616dd44ba072eb93c7c2753dee12f65b919e201
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED7C 20168 bytes
SHA-256: 13a56ae545913e0934e62a4c27e8c8d696dba3d1a15c9a7b9d1c08bcf123b7f5
font_02_sfnt_off0001214f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1