Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b91cdd936a128430…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:04:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0a3da05b800d378cc84db56977dffde4 SHA-1: bbed862f6b4fd30bfe3a2c6c87e0bed2d6462048 SHA-256: b91cdd936a128430c40dc56035d1c016968dd0067d2830299f0ab4a1ede68c44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=instru%C3%A7%C3%A3o+normativa+77+inss+2019+pdf', are likely used for phishing or to serve further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=instru%C3%A7%C3%A3o+normativa+77+inss+2019+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210825_044431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powerliteaac.com/userfiles/file/guzoboxorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/75105331268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2df5c61e0868fa3596e881d10cb92de/9594654321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/51493961999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/misawegewuxanuzuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f112a300b5---guxawewesafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3107a5f4d5c9426c5b5d8be333a74849/11352621539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14511453af---15130759294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqod6p40irbutvubmm8gld1mc4/lexotaxufuzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/kotovebuben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/10381718747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dad29c2742---minamekatajopodipapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/45724422876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelejas.com/IMAGENS/CKFINDER/files/11691013868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611cbc33d696d---95897127275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/638d2bd0f575921f4cf144d56acc2569/51708140439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bb4a294a2---36606941863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3781132c0f---zisatagukaveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6707ed551047fb75055d773f5f617669/jitafowoviluxawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/11570986193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatacorp.com/upload/files/vavetomofuvofafewuxavago.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_off0000d458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD458 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC6F 11572 bytes
SHA-256: 39fbe7c39bfc3a8cd793ab6cc026ad758aea570c8adff4235c7ef9d06666d2e7
font_02_sfnt_off0001079d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1079D 19196 bytes
SHA-256: 8283a3f0737ed06ba18500f3636f5d6dc4bf5a6aa2f6a7623dd02c614aac6edf