Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 090b1517b4e68f82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-08-13 13:49:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cc291c4b4836431a106a108a210642d4 SHA-1: d8d8f622bda69178d487628ce1bc05209680f082 SHA-256: 090b1517b4e68f829363e645fcd96741e163e7385b4928c00bd490fe1fc6c90c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites or disposable hosting. This behaviour is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4cdfbe1ab---melifemazuxalipow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/wodonenexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/gerikojavezogiminupez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34ggf3jljut3uc1rto5do62se/12776026305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lrpog68tdj6e6fl269i7vb863/nezutase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8340617034ee75c5e5084f24261bc477/norelurolavowaxofoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51da9a68a3---47671669708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/11117143290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/82660496763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/joziminuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5bc147fdf78b9e5c253853e23eb6f48/redegibafaxafuvefiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fps0m6f4o4gv9521h8ghbtrtm4/38167617806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdef375dff---42582130154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f43c57cc8c---51032994990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85e1582dca---50622877409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/zifalukedojapanetafagexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9158ba756---76470992323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/10040999516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836b3f85526---43994076302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7fb81a3f8b---bozugilosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euforbiabulgaria.com/uploads/pages/files/tivijugegexomebibalado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccbbb57d8c4---8158308578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=sopa+de+letras+para+imprimir+adultosPDF 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_off0000de09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f61b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61B 18836 bytes
SHA-256: ea50897bfaae4d9f5e0db9088b529523a7c26e8680fbb3fd8611194fdcaf0638
font_02_sfnt_off000126cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126CC 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 63a3489699ffbe739f370889d3f1e87fd07810322f9666025c2c91e3a03fead5