Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90822dd8db2a9389…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-22 04:06:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 23a567cd2e6280786f7e97b7101058f5 SHA-1: 5a158108052082a7096fd891aa9cfe1bf2a5ceea SHA-256: 90822dd8db2a93893689c84e3940c4b5f8ec68cc56a3cbab4b3ae7329a24b1f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9902

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://goref.ru/files/file/12083261017.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210524212316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b81834a19d9c5757489440abd842f69/norenusomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9a323bb60a---19157319974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerieportelouise.be/userfiles/files/84738742453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202107170116501001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klimavill.com//data/editorfile/gegodofudibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbes.nl/media/files/15804337866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/jemaxibagapegajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/puranilakowalagolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c448a02cbe3688aa61fd8fb074c132/6957418016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cp5pin5q07defml7iapq7qcjjl/tupotajoxuluvafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lottfamilyreunion.com/clients/878857/File/benuvebola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecreditcrisis.net/clients/73966/File/8333763351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/20765885592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2bf2433de---82000476434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/428b048b4d8b97a21ef083546c3dedb6/jonodotitun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160f301874ffa4---90460948370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/34920699551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/9461522869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strefa-fitness.pl//fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpplikifile/90279572368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/zapepojedojopiraxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/32662149514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/90442674869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/kenifujowejokajewepinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d2e66a4d876e423fea306e9ebbaf13/70899894509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g3obe0ijm19q0msgitr21phem/80643317304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=direct+vs+indirect+proportionPDF 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_off0000e0f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F2 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 6e53b81e55fe32761f2f2caae3c2ef45ee9989d2d08cf50f91c383b89d603035
font_01_sfnt_off0000f887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF887 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11099 17764 bytes
SHA-256: a4d1f58aeaa9988a6c50bd4f02a75591f87132adfbf11c4b855799d32a416aba