Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f91505481b854553…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:20:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 62a48a2226c7d0dc296169ebd0dac695 SHA-1: ea32dc1097cf4b168bd0bedc540e09d2350f7b57 SHA-256: f91505481b85455327f13527b4af9f94e789ef15247d7eb3b8ce0ec53153862c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click these links, likely leading to further malicious content or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+dimensional+formula+of+magnetic+permeability+is
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd0e6b2f427ab2d46cfb3d5f2a8f3e28/92376220588.pdf
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/67634294015.pdf
    • https://betibg.eu/webroot/img/files/sebarow.pdf
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/13227913330.pdf
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61af28c18b---63956426057.pdf
    • https://strategieb2b.com/userfiles/file/90621089115.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebeabb004ab82cb978280ca9b31178c3/popoberiramobekuweg.pdf
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d80a5af967df5b89bdd9f22cd2c8b1e8/47163619251.pdf
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/gamovodugenulisowibup.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af4cac36d30f2ae949aa60eb9c709b88/52776285309.pdf
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44fd56d1a3d5e905d3bb35310422bc83/molimifigimokuj.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bb958dd88---66876622887.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b636cac7f0---jujiwasawek.pdf
    • https://newoptic.mn/uploads/files/67595169839.pdf
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b68ee60ba1ff507fb51181c5292960e/lidesiripep.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/43067744500.pdf
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1sl7vo9pgl7pv531s9q2jkhrj5/wodarutez.pdf
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8f2bb3b1f---79517965695.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071547f2d497---27396999687.pdf
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g99dnd232ic61arhb4k9te0532/fiduz.pdf
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42f38e962a147447e60cdfd080601701/7320034234.pdf
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/49248772186.pdf
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/65584076949.pdf
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ad0ae75efb554fec9e7a3a9146369d6/buguga.pdf
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c545af9143081f0855090c2daed389/58834849148.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb3d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001134f.bin
9ab61e67f7762a7186580543c537eb4b4face9c0f02e10e95dd57f2fbbf09d3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134F 20252 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000148b2.bin
65503f05780e6dd0839d8e6a6643c46f635bc59ad4d574a82938a73b8a5987f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148B2 11384 bytes