Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 090f6bc1c1057f4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-20 18:12:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: acf808846b7af6a152c3678c5e9aacde SHA-1: ca1eca03dcec655e7b694563b2377ee01a926b28 SHA-256: 090f6bc1c1057f4c6cf213cee5c101632a0a60ed6d1c5b66676a871abfafc737
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The PDF structure itself is also noted as having duplicate object bodies, which can be used to obfuscate malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://hjtech.org/admin/upfile/file/juzisiraxovalolizeforaseb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5n891n3mqhp78nl1f9bh2hhvsd/59807180085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/zaburuwudarux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/fuxaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5665169892703d3582f1a8fb084f166d/47343822691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609848319f57f---seneremeziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/sevalezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/47234124953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf7294804cf2d9389ea5746a06f8026f/vokajasoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076265c0b32e---15981496447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/tebazetetalaputovalami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvmnotarissen.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/fojubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6fafeef7a949b82476cd7f3b7fbd2dc/46172680298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mides.vn/images/ckeditor/files/nafovixixixajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/961470421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16090d7a952e3e---kanigamogikowejomemuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/saxafusenekajukagotagitif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/simoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/59184295262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16f2f9e3070a6b5de233a7de3604d829/50707417360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2f40511e2---vukovinozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51598146465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82783c6af5---83833108674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caakprm3vnjkc5ss7qnupgrmj7/lopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=britannia+unchained+pdfPDF 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_off0000e21d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21D 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 86268d154d9046bb4454533ce534e84f192feb23d60d76e619d0184ea52b5a05
font_01_sfnt_off00011091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11091 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 4ecbf8f5e2652c992c0e8f2b9e261f6117a77994bc01b77ad97cf5a50cb7b09f
font_02_sfnt_off00012886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12886 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1