Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f91f1707055c0076…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:28:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8cbad7628a708e6c2c378177c853b364 SHA-1: 1efe295020799a2aac10147ef2c8a5be0169fde5 SHA-256: f91f1707055c007608509df124f2b19d466ebaffb1c33e546966704862dcd8b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or scam campaign designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/20973300534.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93489837176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image//files/35474210940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a46d181a6aab67cf0b218290854128b5/lefale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btp1fsf8h9r6e13rv80kgud7v4/popolitibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/14757725336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31b2d32cc4edceb8c0e1882ed03bfd11/92896692292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/nolazum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e13204ee20a3c2621b23cb208c502fd/62641197290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a5d1bb29e---30269950133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876fb688fea---18347180738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miltonhigh65.com/clients/874455/File/sogesazejopukavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/xokavanevutoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/vusomanamegikifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0b527107a1---60826905640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/30150335116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wisabixilaxetot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhvi.com/upload/files/begumugajebamexarunesokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/31461049136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetownsendfamily.net/clients/a/ab/ab79602242cca8f930cd52af13df1d51/File/guvenut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/60173800044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maszyny.pl/userfiles/file/luzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heatandgas.com//EditorImages/file/rufokeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9802a958ae386492a07f27ae6b0ece9/vipuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipmax.in/chipmax/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiwopusosixovebopedidifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=another+word+for+sectionsPDF 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_off0000bc74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC74 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 90c44832eb784a7552fbd957e53e3f4c6a170479fe2c8c09f024a0ab0cb202e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E1 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 070ca5b0398d566c5edc3499310c6e6b840a11996b17b53fb48299ba38475104
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1