Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f90ee74b8acbd3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:37:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c1e0cc367025b9d2a060e01f7020d48e SHA-1: c6a5f95466df1a43680ee39c04de641e41afe558 SHA-256: 3f90ee74b8acbd3f886c894f3a8b2b78960ffd59b0f09b9f8541ed1b5e46f8be
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection further supports a phishing or malware distribution intent. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spyic+mod+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://pima-alarms.eu/slicice/file/jigixejevipejejujulifewik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed3c37a220---6319497076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suphammamnon.org/uploads/files/wokisifetigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8051c4bf57c8f644f9d27e6afacc024/75350611779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/kovomuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ml2tmllmts09n4v2kknobctqv/51633783671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funke.be/data/file/veforuguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/3542953108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/53892321156.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://vakaruinzinerija.lt/userfiles/file/53820916059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/1631443626666667927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/depimalezudemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vendax.ro/files/file/97161237846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projekt-lesen.de/userfiles/file/wubelugafaropuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xfswchem.com/upload/files/26942261323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94430067507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanaca.com/uploads/image/files/zuburadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wanodosaredefosowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesrimaudieres.com/images/uploads/file/bijamazopu.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_off0000df64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF776 18916 bytes
SHA-256: fe8c6e313e17c0e3f118909dc478d93dd01e6f59de08127857fc8c64a9443656
font_02_sfnt_off00012839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12839 10544 bytes
SHA-256: ff75460728a4ac08afcf31f86d5be5c86f219e1a4f1674d18f011977b047adf1