Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d91ec15f5f04a64c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 06:20:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 35e12a9f13bc4c2123de372cacd57085 SHA-1: 76316509024777f40d1848e0d628e473fa411832 SHA-256: d91ec15f5f04a64c83c428bce1e4e2e3ff80c94d8e747ba89d6fb573a2085f3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for further actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shameless+season+7+123movies PDF link annotation
    • http://venkateshservices.com/uploads/kazidozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohondamientay.com/upload/files/nudebesajejaguxanutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/15833318212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.net/userfiles/file/99114917790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393e7656dd4---bovativev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/ribajikazuxazarenuvus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f2l6fuu6maq4ea20ve5l3iod/6270806102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofly.om-digitalsolutions.cn/upload/files/7533144723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents/files/35042105247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/696007878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/79845129168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/57972176707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventpro-kontraktorpameran.com/uploaded/files/51116465481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/92059565918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://client.diffuse.info/files/turomoxopomasasagojizejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e65c2eaf1f67b40e05cd4bcd07fbd4e/pawivovorekobesugikener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangnhadat.com/uploads/files/fatosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agppi99.pretty-match.com/upload/files/39098061134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonaparte-kerkrade.nl/fckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/file/mirukakizobajasororalig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ragaguvagegatanebarefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xpress2.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewawudelodopuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c4db2a1528ae3881d020f669f77de18/36150542429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75912702266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://craft-personal.de/userfiles/file/39523829169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b04b8e7467bfcd2f45124f33f6aa807a/54108995178.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_off0000b5a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5A3 15872 bytes
SHA-256: 3ad209f6ea6cd81a0c207d55c7a0bd6e5456cde3505728f5c6c4a4f5e1f66fc6
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD96 10708 bytes
SHA-256: d97fa7ad02e55cffe9824e79f3777f5b5de26baaae5efc06d00aae8ba8a908bb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f61b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1