Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c91639807cadd38b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 12:14:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9afd3acad66e03f4fdb089aae3e744c0 SHA-1: c94bcf71b96d043d2d4954b9a101aab6dfcca22d SHA-256: c91639807cadd38b213c7bf6f0b9d2c9c7dde6a99ccd6b9406a7ebc4c39be3d3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its structure, which resembles an image-only document designed to trick users into clicking embedded links. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting further supports this assessment. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF format itself can embed JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/34112343719.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/40567702939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ritisufebulevawol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/24656535529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/39671125011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905115654350619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/litodipuwalijekulofubowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89104734510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobil-tech.com/files/60734263069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatowo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/83950303680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsanmyngoc.com/upload/files/55068287749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/userfiles/file/72636599076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morebricks.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobimusaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/19915944886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/54084186322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/sugijebozabugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotel-gerard-dalsace.com/upload/document/dofuzexokutegimuxape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca577f8e2b6812c4c09df40d1ec6510/79914783876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/28629400132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326eb860957---xamemimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tythb.cn/uploadfile/files/7394362450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11545490652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/polumupor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a660dd62d---22841032391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=calories+in+fruits+and+vegetables+chart+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_off0000b256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB256 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA68 13388 bytes
SHA-256: e7d3c4087abd53e947c0db0e2da36e79faaa6c57214d175520db8f398ed6d589
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB73 11236 bytes
SHA-256: e6040b0a48b3c1cd54119b26ecd6603426f1bf708e3d8993386d6dc5953c1f8f