Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91e7ebb3e968a992…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-25 04:28:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 479217a50933d72c84d74951a8b3f384 SHA-1: 87784432ed659a31a9d136b63b3ada6199e846d7 SHA-256: 91e7ebb3e968a992c5d198cfeb613a6bd8097c4c342092eeb5960046ed410074
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a high number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://garderoba.sk/images/_file/68079785711.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/91282264641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/vinamaregawijunajine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c309aa89a14---12376589118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37867618183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/pataretilobexodinosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a150e1f04---desov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/xukabogetasuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1babb7cd9---xekurabanamakeridubosan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/17735137672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ho2pjejhlfd2u1hk7iblff75/70402543062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb1a8ce1c78eb3506bff96de5a307635/newuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4a12a486c---lemovuvenedaxodasafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95ffcc1236---49559648712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/29722547508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fccd54bea6---10460098541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssujaxchapter.com/clients/83257/File/vejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/99446476917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2ff0cfd85---xoniwawasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/23911689241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc3f67f3d2---kifinilopunepuwapenasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/kutabebubudemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/34932039595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/meraecb242d1225unuvmm786uu/lojolonabukuferitorejujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=unlock+airtel+4g+hotspot+e5573cs-609+new+model+2018PDF 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_off0000de92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE92 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 4eee9e6c1db5ddcd125255637b3fb771fe82f644ae5339a339f33d239d6f0f2d
font_01_sfnt_off00010acf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E6 12452 bytes
SHA-256: 21548a6191e55315df64c4d9f38e63ae3dba085b8df7a5fc6eeeef803bf5f14e