Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a891771d6023ec41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:50:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6ef11a04cd0a719778f10d6aa86ccce8 SHA-1: 8889902111baad6cb7a28ffd93e0d48689f730ef SHA-256: a891771d6023ec412595009c866ba259a32102feb94bacfc91a73c7c62a1fc64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461e70521915a5e05c53a6795b6f484a/2472623446.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://upbfassadenbau.com/upload/file/kawobikanuwugeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a171c7be38---1688502338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5d50c0396bda692f2b1af57c9ab9929/mepatuvimetawituwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d94c502fbb---62965610778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/ditetabumizemuzitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/71573606996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9bd2cc31a---28172493651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc9deea9aa---84896627941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/81201356489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/74860910593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82118826769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/geduxadin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a52d17c9e3c0be84ad92c4bfa2651f0e/23186662365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bffd42628fcb5f7b66a6e3f086ddc68/52153779326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/72979608809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapemexevanisavojipusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/31176933602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/nukatomowonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/am35cpss6cv9s2vpl9i2vlqah0/rovexusajotowuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/93958798389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/xipide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b3a9d27e4cc8f33da66680cccff581c/wufabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/badatixexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/77841330316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=12th+physical+education+notes+pdfPDF 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_off0000c959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC959 17056 bytes
SHA-256: a3b7b57cb8b74b419743e54a473265ff95fd87f2e1ed0733bb015717722b18ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A9 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 8c19c899e755e2152f7d13c95aa1aeeed87194027bf560a1af3cb470bbfe866e
font_02_sfnt_off00010ef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1