Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e90fe89e0b5c394…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-21 04:57:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1fbec6eb732bcf72400ebfb708687bcf SHA-1: 15d09549c25abe8150fc91a0cfabe7edea739f2e SHA-256: 1e90fe89e0b5c394e54650cf4e1928cc81854c80374ec937a439e80a806bdb8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of techniques used to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://giorgiosantinelli.it/file/riwudoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/2563397831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf28ed42f64---nakavatojizajuxovuwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bef55410eb---ganijax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://info-jimukyoku.jp/lot/upload/files/xivozaxalaxamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9beea4c98fe14a834a16ee39cd4783c5/62999459321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/jirejadudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/rifivuzaruwopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86b76a2b262f7b9e3835bceeacc473bc/44130802468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/89769322344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jm5f94vcavch2r830f8cai5r5/65698167103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882a73834a5---58617665915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/52196128646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04oeado4jd9po2rugamgq74tv5/38129398440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b2d77c60a---35578373544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc55caf8810ac2a28ba54697cb7e1df3/tajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/29926290734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/nuvijudovepejivezowifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e67f5e5093a636b645ed90293ea882/1364761114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/993b1e94e21f81b0bd98c76196c9f3e3/47650443349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=heliocentric+model+factsPDF 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_off0000ea2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2E 16380 bytes
SHA-256: 47f50b38498ab182d0cdb1b83920838aaadedd1b1ec3d5bbdb616fdc220f88e7
font_01_sfnt_off00011491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11491 10628 bytes
SHA-256: c2eb7239d0b67ee5d57413cb310c19bf0915b0cad4368fab0535613756767923
font_02_sfnt_off00012cd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1