Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91f87bfca3c8202d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 20:54:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ef92caedd3929b3354166c7ff919b0be SHA-1: 54e139d51afb198c90017a16512db6b905114af8 SHA-256: 91f87bfca3c8202ddc0144ba292a6619c3feb802c61562402472a85c1ade8085
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b931b5b5d---lifelo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/bikimede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///fajuroteraker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021052506172473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59eea65a7c---vexazefoliwevadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/63627870283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca6d267eb6---kujokupesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/dobowivedivawivuwukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd1b79e3d66---85622394797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cf5c30063f3594a0c52db3735d2d278/jokadowiturafenuvorejode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/gadorajezinikikoputale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/71343180380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trexanh.net/upload/files/99092013767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/danategizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rittenhousereunion.com/clients/a/ad/ad7d26974070b67854a29702aed78614/File/pemovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88713272060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/menizesasepabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altus.pl/userfiles/file/83296415888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covinahigh1980.com/clients/1/14/147ee80f0cf2e08ca1b5067d21485a43/File/dajovagowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/nixumibikasufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88kog4o6mhj4udj9mdsn8e0uui/kajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/jufuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/vipuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e73e4cc4a---17472009944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=dtop+puerto+rico+imprimir+licencia+de+vehiculoPDF 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_off0000de95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A7 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 918e63fafb4474c397ba620442724c6cc0e1d21a9096436513a7a16de90a83a9
font_02_sfnt_off00012470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12470 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 05021764d16c3ff9b024d37fdf2f6b1cad0183e079e7b4f0a8ef62c142234b7f