Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90845365cebc5d85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:09:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c568142d04ed1c4ed8d1ef4feb688d73 SHA-1: 64141d49e94e1e2a54ad49900f03d5701390eec7 SHA-256: 90845365cebc5d8590ba9133a6962772ed66912c7e1475fe8db730f87a34f18c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of external links and the high confidence detection indicate a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://namlinhchisapa.com/userfiles/image/file/gijinigepubixara.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/722cf2e4dcd32dcdba3da18e482e315e/66848551638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2462612341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/93426040408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/3103036490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9v35mpdonv40jg7l6ti0mg6f0/balijuwoxujanovatuvatexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/89346534298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bracyfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c2/c2db1a97f769835965582c74015c7782/File/jezutat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bc5dc6d6627175eaffe8fd336a838f9/maramexojukosovufemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petgears.com/app/webroot/files/file/zijixudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/36554152252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/fitokigavemisufoforof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81981065655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960ihs.com/clients/e/e0/e0b58928a48036c9af8d6cfc9cffdd99/File/17473050802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17e60dafaeeb37e74697643b7f03718d/34928249405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gerastar.com/userfiles/file/xobijakupewokiwuregenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210722_A1F3B3052E45D515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/83749997590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/32292786811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomboy2.com/images/library/File/kikivoselaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-sanya.com/blog_images/blog_/file/xadatufezovubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/tumotapifesakowitojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3513695794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dece1f392e---nikelubumikujifepamefiwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210627143112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607007e97a56e---zuxodakexefawavodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=clean+eating+food+list+pdfPDF 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_off0000bb3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB3A 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 6123ec3e8774bde1294f31b4f541bf3e3ece14085ee1e24c1dd05ca9931831c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d35d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD35D 15908 bytes
SHA-256: 8152545ee8f11de13a0b34693dbeef253e357cad3e90b0f09d397909865ca1bb
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1