Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d91af9d29a6ae511…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:07:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 495e02402142bb0e1da689cfe83bbf17 SHA-1: 0f1ea4dc9292ff53b7de974ca1e0a249018d6668 SHA-256: d91af9d29a6ae5118be989d81fce16ddd3edbfe6a445371e036b19b97cde3d1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources. Several of these URLs lead to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://mlsconsulting.net/cms/files/File/bererixusemesoguwufen.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce25a4c869cee9a12b70cab91f9c0981/warofijoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/85715427876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/85203104165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/zobirutavole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/pupiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/47097902975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/27071156844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210708142353254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb0779411a---65752172767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signatureshreyas.in/userfiles/file/jenabovapuzisawosufipizid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrealerimini.it/userfiles/files/16115674884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741c77e788d---5212870520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/gimofufobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210904112313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210706_9636A64A22CE3618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/85283746044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/62259056085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97336757315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h8s1m9tqpt1s62upuh5a5e80ir/tilivira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/tebafunupomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d75bf7987da---28342125125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/ragogijomiwatubozefumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+pass+manual+driving+test+vicPDF 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_off0000d710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD710 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 408ef04e4d87b9eed42638682ab74ad023cfeaecd0241a32ce03849151dd0152
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0BE 17692 bytes
SHA-256: df1e602ea0f41de1e8b908c3f21414fd17f2f5d7f6128148b61fb081848b052a
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1