Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90573f429592513d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 22:30:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fffe9340f3ff1e54c4c58c8356749c30 SHA-1: 73a038be174251a8d0c7253fafa7ab0ab77e8fff SHA-256: 90573f429592513d7b1166a2d03330369f325d50ad37e7923f7ece4b95e20d1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The primary function appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for malicious purposes such as phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://sacmacbook.net/userfiles/file/15250940163.pdf
    • https://interference.ajoda.eu/userfiles/files/vefobidasiwowixusutoxesod.pdf
    • http://acm-medicali.it/userfiles/files/78702669701.pdf
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/xobazototokunapog.pdf
    • http://armiikrajowej36.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rukoxojelusexigoxelanej.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9d0ac4699---4874595900.pdf
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388e14131c7---newugamelusaxon.pdf
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/316819526.pdf
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/11165155234.pdf
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/reberafilezagifan.pdf
    • https://uat-tunisia.com/userfiles/file/52832611004.pdf
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/22506760595.pdf
    • http://schokofontaenen.de/idata/84237153597.pdf
    • https://sadex.pl/fck/file/5533352542.pdf
    • http://ap116.ru/userfiles/file/rotegazibufabonavak.pdf
    • http://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86848323781.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/803469f53679808ef2e9869149462156/41821768506.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132729f1d1a7---60865336605.pdf
    • http://sochi-riba.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozifox.pdf
    • https://bandotrading.it/uploads/file/nujan.pdf
    • http://firsttimehomebuyerstudy.com/images/file/linekejekibakexox.pdf
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/rubejekudazinabudajon.pdf
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d0ce8a8d7---tezesewuzogoverex.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=tubemate+youtube+downloader+free
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2f0.bin
39a81cfb5d60d0f07f573a89997289b6303854f9fa82e08fe251fe67aa0dcba2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F0 16808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e8e.bin
53cb155da173716d6450c336f847c59e149e119c2de1488bfecfdda34a1347b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E8E 10656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001270b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1270B 16792 bytes