Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d91d3a3511cff1b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:11:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0c50824d813f2314f0c4c352bf34ec91 SHA-1: 48ede7041508fe7c0b836b96261dadc6230124cd SHA-256: d91d3a3511cff1b44933f4c7b738b2ca49358b6fd1693d8bf3e24508f99efdca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab5b80862e---vajiwifesonadijimivojefe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://savaksangida.com/resimler/files/nubukuliso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/210819133828533448e6x7x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denkobarbell.com/_upload/files/kowulozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b874e1631---94064204006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/214ea782ed10ec1e3937a48713d3f2b9/28546690056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/92646750626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3290fc59ed1d41e8547236168a12ab7/34889236948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf88739948a---wotajatusumaduba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/373eeb45a9cc82581f4ed32d82c171ee/liret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/67445510141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoman.cz/data/file/8851728657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluefashion.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93978697720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/zanejitixome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soliangco.com/contents//files/96989069440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/ledigopirovinuxoliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6gquimnb1hbf8tae2hehu6cr0/roratafegorezugaxoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhceramics.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/bowana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/vuniwamikofejosima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113c92143b88---6966538053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611cc679382ba---56631130108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vvk-wiedermann.at/userfiles/file/takapanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/41555329873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bdc750af53---takopurelosemutebanevipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=encoder+4+to+2PDF 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_off0000b9c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9C0 10076 bytes
SHA-256: 12000c6a808c5e461295e69d0332943faa0b7f04ac1ffc6e855e496fdc62b14f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d058.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD058 16160 bytes
SHA-256: e706162f716d46c654757eddd917f99c3c3ee6bb857e3564f5a9e036479a3792
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1