Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90787b7f8bd84e2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:08:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0edb0747c1ec5717d969a2739fb5eecb SHA-1: 89fa6681d9e8e650efbcfc1f19be5586dfc15fb7 SHA-256: 90787b7f8bd84e2f845a142c68262aeea95c2782f3af03bcfa4a80dd007f80f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+discharge+superheat PDF link annotation
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/80864227114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502050143199008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a5940852a---80382340979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8a0d5d0855---gewibokazufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab68524fb8d4248d2cf7f3b90a88945f/viful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcd16bcb13d580d217cdeaeda2998e24/pevijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c9351dd219f74e91ff1376794c93e8/38479327364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/94115558437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a405761bd---tumogifupevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ol5dars25uf594hgaj47i0h1u/46107924823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa3afe66d8---56625438918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4834b19076298daf0afda14b811670d/lapuroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21cf2e821ba45e8eba09b42b96d63d92/10211263510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e9da54cfc6f1a71d30c56b6e1dec5e6/68609021708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/82621207811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a984f0fd24---xudawavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kja592fksm33urp23634ol5li5/xusuxazezolawurogigutiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/sunurobipikekasupefumirud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80d003f496---zidaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/zefekusiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad2cdaae6f---58491699279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/85985055938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lca3i85g2j3j64grid3k12k8io/27502849377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/79592626312.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_off0000ea41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA41 17936 bytes
SHA-256: e853d4c123afba5065edccb23a316da1e5bd61e00756cb5591d161ce39311eb3
font_01_sfnt_off0001198c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1198C 10868 bytes
SHA-256: d6dcee06a685c7fb24eb897885ad32ae8dd3629c3fa3648aff9e22b12479ef3a
font_02_sfnt_off0001329b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1329B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1