Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91eec05afae6f092…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-29 11:42:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ad4c361dc7893e4bad2d6cd4a7cf8000 SHA-1: 6cba65f500d2b1576c08453827330bd2bfa5332e SHA-256: 91eec05afae6f09219e2cbd5c1ab65b8cba499da79f7baa703cfeb99c77ec8f9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=archery+club+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a9bdcee06---81560830866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161486ea3adcc4---73732079548.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://coachhouse.info/assets/file/96462976111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/31239923433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-onesrl.com/userfiles/files/77704753454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stillincontact.com/images/mails/file/fudabaxajebevasulefejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mccartha-cobb.com/userfiles/files/wejegisuxixunefole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/95267343914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145d295e318d---gizuvasutujasubaketadopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emons-verlag.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/lotafidubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontogepszerviz.hu/editor_up/31151457084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnrealestate.in/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/zogevujepemogameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/42240937904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/8618656556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jezirka-biobazeny.cz/UserFiles/File/69201644498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finadev-groupe.com/userfiles/file/giwuzanupoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traviet36.com/upload/files/50779413393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakefoluxagixavidos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364be27e3ea---vuxejagiduvanosanubugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaytrogiang.com/userfiles/files/58103517399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hediyelikhanem.com/calisma2/files/uploads/21063221622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deleersnijder-bocaege.be/images/file/foniniduzifesugapudirod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/pabidetuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabxlg.com/userfiles/file/suliwipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/11818545082.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_off0000b186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB186 10744 bytes
SHA-256: a10dcf4a9c801a60da6941ae4de63589ea719daddb87cde727f7ce5b9453828d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e21a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21A 16308 bytes
SHA-256: b09dbdf33ca60567b75aa5fc2f23a787f2bba7c10a006d747148ab857142f977