Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e90a353d14ce6da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-27 20:18:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 559e4621f26094144b61c79f7f98716f SHA-1: 12cc2c06f838c1a87d57bf8d20cc8257a893f16d SHA-256: 3e90a353d14ce6da390d35ec86f7f4bdec4520305f154c4e5ffac81602ff4612
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 as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF structure itself is heavily obfuscated, and the document body is unreadable, indicating it's likely a container for malicious links rather than user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/foriko.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://huyndaicaudien.com/upload/files/22030653609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbeautyconcept.com/upload/content_images/file/70793614362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/56384614524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadep30giay.com/uploads/image/files/40337689145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413db5d0df0---80801204066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-mill.jp/images/file/bixunuvikaweruzajaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/mogikepulanivefexirowame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikepexazosafusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wulazuwomedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designsdubaiukfashion.com/userfiles/file/rivomekazazogetoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/630611520c06eb2bb832cca6370366bb/magowevudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/9526686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/napixexotodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bivulikutorovitajeneno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/69796935571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd10d53995aa5953e3afb8172038f1d6/19203141130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/83411511775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southerncross-ex.com/images/blog/file/rigunowubidulewodobula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jv-cms.crazy-jessie.nl/uploads/files/dutimodukulewapokigova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613594dc77b07---niniwogigagaxegenunubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortcrimea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38386318638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/mosinasimozakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7932ee825b44388503556d51798ab272/15780724783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/72632214365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+z+cell+games+sagaPDF 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_off0000b441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB441 14996 bytes
SHA-256: a713b8559edd5d7fb19289fc9590bc14df1349be27659bc50518fdb5237f5f28
font_01_sfnt_off0000da2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA2D 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 54f14df1f44f4d41c70f5858af731445043e07262f4b9cbfee879744f175dcc3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF258 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1