Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91f3dd1b44bd20e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:24:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1b27e7a5d4769b1570fb00386fc1ae65 SHA-1: 495bc16f0719a4fde4fc0275c11bec394846d529 SHA-256: 91f3dd1b44bd20e555da6c3e3edc8a56b9ee3e33795dbdda3bfd709e7e0e4e99
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of a download button lure further supports a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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
  • 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 https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsg9r0992grgfegsl8p9ke9020/23151849287.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kepco-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/govomiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/dufekedabamilogewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21fae566809b6a40cb9c5b2520b07195/90344201141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/210709152539563364xaiob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatlieubaooncachnhiet.com/userfiles/file/76030154208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/13642397117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8c5161b9dc---sizomukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads//files/202108120051175074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwevixojebuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42fad6575995f0fa524b6816e7aa86ac/14055967285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/zoxegetarolufafiniduwati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33ea13a5c8d68f75717b9d48a7d8ae07/60899123491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wobesagupilojule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4sontario.org/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/sijojuvenobuxomukiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/muzobadisovuwumurubupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/setetegopaxabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/44720606779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7lfopk4d5oa63laocfg3jf3lbg/ridipufofigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/31037043587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97vs0ee0af5qh5ng3i2r17a0qs/loduwigajirizadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myqself.com/upload/files/vojajoximubofugusanuxokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=up+board+time+table+2019+pdf+download+sarkari+resultPDF 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_off0000e537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE537 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD49 19352 bytes
SHA-256: 8ed8a0f1c7824b1c29f0a643a0b1ae189c6db729ffc449073ce7600f2bd79f4c
font_02_sfnt_off00013038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13038 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 95a3c56b26f44f2e93986edba39f22d934e627e853f6f588755ea8cd72c3e303