Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b90486140787b9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-11 10:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2cc26c06e592f8f3b3a322ac1e2fc6f1 SHA-1: 0de9f3775ff5c6583164d0a861129783a5505db9 SHA-256: 1b90486140787b9a3274660f2df180001c6f154479ff4fbab370a98639574c8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests a tactic to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+delinquency+on+credit+report PDF link annotation
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e34b98ceb815b42fe77d0fbf786592c3/56025639374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e860a2764472ae2c73ee2037159a512d/86933565535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/48293299499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ecd87e5cd115e148e7ace59186a1a9d/jugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609497de13e11---kevikakowirimudizezadopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d46515dc45c---69883097252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/44848495183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070465b36df0---sisatinememixizaxinukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/45055344673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2cbac59fb---95799984041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16041852463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/fusaponuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/jetetomabirusula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7285b5d3f578b2cf6d78e3c92cd2b136/bonojapofodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/11456819124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a333221f3171de534153793a97a518/51669668346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c013930f0d---zawulefetopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dab4c1da1c---dubuwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2db21887716bbbd181c51ed33e453fa5/60650569235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/xavowaxufusaziwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a94470cc0a41a1227bb1644d14251d4/30411875135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae76bc435ae---23431704305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/55920256603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/89809574941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/1307016502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/75681941412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848ce671289---8000354433.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_off0000f39e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB0 17448 bytes
SHA-256: a8ccc48703ddcfde746b3aded5ff2afed908e4a9b018e7b059e13f61191383b7
font_02_sfnt_off0001393a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1393A 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 2d65533140d1e66dd8a6eca90a29d3472ea3cf318c2a6622b3f65e6e5d0a21e6