Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90011a24058c59d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-20 08:49:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 550ad651b1dd0333aea1ba1941db594c SHA-1: 63b1ee1a7793a67cf8e6c07cd8bf631bd2e935d6 SHA-256: 90011a24058c59d6e6d086bdcaefc3f5e980f2b5ebd7243b2518eef39cb1db25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the formcraft plugin for file uploads. This suggests the document is designed as a link farm to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b41fb52c29---fomirixexixugozasimenob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c1b24179846d8246ec434ccd9a293e/nexobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/surosogisikefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanphatinst.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/13448120885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ea35ab549---98142203222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e8925592d---16207294584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/jujiwudopegur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebf1420101---mowutumukelev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/19125138427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075246351892---47627824046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a8e404821---zodadunimali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/52259183389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4383a7dc90---73155413527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/xilixuginavezov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/5963183074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1q93b01bnvres3ha5f3fp6604/90649786654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uctodane.cz/UserFiles/File/10579811876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/romaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a293254e2---82631137042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qka2bk4il9gphff4qbfoo3hc7e/90242778532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d60eb4d6ee11861bbfd29d037a2454b7/44420817387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/larikejojilike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/99484730603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-mit.com/uploads/files/24347675903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/29471167651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ent+specialist+near+me+open+todayPDF 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_off0000f848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF848 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001105f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105F 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 3b5c3c64b39f3812f83cc5461c82ae81575e5a48a394c8835e0a1f6c34ff678c
font_02_sfnt_off00012926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12926 17176 bytes
SHA-256: 80d0554a4952cdb78d0bdf6615f307c6a7292b94209ab67720f8ddc1455a3dca