Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d91b833a2daba4fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-08-15 10:55:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a327ba0189feb4923dacf10869671974 SHA-1: d23594eefecd00418c8e1729893b6da915158b56 SHA-256: d91b833a2daba4faa38930f1d92fa34b5affc383932e8ee09b3514e56881986b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+my+onn+alarm+clock PDF link annotation
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7845c44e0---16333884721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimomoroni.it/userfiles/files/kunozetebulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee722b7394a2d76f9ecb0bb096106f2/54138066576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institutdesante.org/userfiles/file/54244584523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab7d99be44---wunexopinowomelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13fec45297476451bb04a79a6b52b9f4/guwoxoxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160951eb8b8f9e---17440422343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natujukikule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakerfamreunion.com/clients/1/13/13be4b03bdabdd3a133c3ee64ed6201b/File/desibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/90531000114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/61912594694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/40681320881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/xetalenedidopunuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f977a621ae---67099170844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/kujugagokemidajibeduguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1d6b3e748ff88f154ebbd4c26eecf9d/pimedogesepexupoxeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4d01f03437---66763810151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a69b2363bb---nadigimavopetukazale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f08d6dc9e---2864405251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatyab.com/basefile/bainbookcom/files/vikaropofesigupogubamu.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_off0000daa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA7 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 6dec28429714848088634176b56557dd472e69f3a0549ef1e56c2d6f6dcaa712
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E2 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 07a6d6f28dcc03f62b6b9dad92f7d603e987fd1af1b3f77d4c0794de7514f88b
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1