Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90612a566d565566…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:47:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 033e918757a484d9dd950eedc9b8e9f6 SHA-1: dad569d936a29d3ed3706794d53e9c18c5b7a9bf SHA-256: 90612a566d565566bf3e8f1385ea35545cdfdd84b660dbaa97dc76d1267aed7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or a trojan delivery mechanism. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs that often embed JavaScript for redirection or exploit delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+file+beginner+third+edition+workbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ysh.my/userfiles/file/bekojeludekukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://normec-cm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51255924537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhodium.vn/uploads/news_file/38895279015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de4fb6c513---17229811562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/ziparapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/15656250770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livstyle.ro/home/livstyle/public_html/uploads/files/fipemumarofabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132277479ce7---doxuweluwolunadasogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/2520135813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9bedfdf985fe71220aef31492e62833/17884315874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwhouse.ru/uploads/file/kudedovijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/gimatifuwuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dglytbt.com/upfolder/e/files/20210911135251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417d37416db---ripazani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/fesefixuxopozitoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idevicesplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/7567956453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi.com/contents/files/wakujajidurimakibuxomevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e749e2038c54682e1a64d9cbd7d2ef3/62874583210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614709cf9053a---segukijidigiperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d9a0430f917cfabb924cff17d25572b/jogosifafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/tarofuzevemezavube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/voxivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/kikekupufefubetofojufeb.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_off0000bbb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBB4 16392 bytes
SHA-256: ec866a8016be3bc57b76defeecc5c8e4da2ed293d035abf7d002caade8b4098d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE661 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE78 10916 bytes
SHA-256: ee2a6f1d48329694e55421c7db01ed0e8782fe1574855c84244a4402fcf6aa29