Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90489c7b3e9832f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-08-06 06:14:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: c7a25c6e244dbf9789e75ccb5205b941 SHA-1: 910637326953e3ed3e91467aa61669cb0cfbb678 SHA-256: 90489c7b3e9832f894aac50ba97579e727092572ca9cf2546f37fec4779f34b8
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to known malicious redirectors and compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish users or deliver further malware. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to malicious sites via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blessed+are+you+lord+god+of+all+creation+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607890d98971a---zevibugasotugapos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c49tkqvlupqlpre4viipq1b86f/rovetuwekujoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentalrud.com/userfiles/file/23909179455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/vizoruzozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/91096800625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b76bcdc8f---rexifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a748121ba03---10975603454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d50b039a3---likewavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610040b35c26c---xapobudipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6782185209---zedejida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849858ea49e---tupiraledutikakenijutake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868cd9f0726---sexiwirikotirilube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipmax.in/chipmax/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zetemadiwusotejaxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqmmqr0t3qqqgdb8i1q0bikdj0/nirupotopetabolinobamilav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/mizebetug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthicayxanh.vn/webroot/img/files/9402364540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/19496331834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/93986291535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865efaa3d36---90411177821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b5dd5bc45---61354577677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/74445270002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0df086e858929f7939d80f7244181883/vulizufisopivagikegafo.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_off0000d437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD437 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4E 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 8927386a029e4757d2f3d59acb7e578af3c0aeb9d093f67693d758f3b5c5a6a4
font_02_sfnt_off00010606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10606 17696 bytes
SHA-256: de0e941b75f69429a7a85aa5aa0740840ef3bb160c35a326a0815fa09e48b945