Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90a2d47dc1c52959…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:25:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4ce5b2c6e4c070dc271f24d7b64b1891 SHA-1: b3c12daf1705037338bda57e7b8ad7bf3c5480d4 SHA-256: 90a2d47dc1c52959bd08b3b5f0914b147a998ac4c9b2c1b75a9a4fd8fd6a67ee
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the structure aligns with phishing or malware distribution tactics. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 5

  • 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://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cf6e2e6a6---petopuvowutavoramexov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowevajuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolionsfarm.it/userfiles/files/45797884666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6045f531b63d59ac91caa5ebef8fcf5/76169179666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25abfa73bc60ea30062aa7bf98961fcb/32204794196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://righetti-ticozzi.it/userfiles/files/594420807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cdec888e40---gefatabisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/fikojadimidusesofajela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7756384b6f---60236335021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcpqtllh1svpct31r1mhsmqvb1/gaviviwidafunapalug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0834943026---12651056196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bef5aafb85c9da8aff508e5024759d67/30426179072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/kukubixesewovobemuzubivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db9e0b3424---71548306795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2bdc94c310---jusezejovisotababiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da7074cb39098282b553b86ff15313d9/51432096002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee73796fa2---33055389167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89kdf33b4t8tdar9855d9e5ec4/16266167297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e848753a3---sijugigipomexevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8d2c69529470fe3dd0e11fb9c331163/99164157348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/46316032053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/zisofenaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a483f15154---zonibikasilitirekuravus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782a430bfb9---51302980479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9ec7c3ae6---75412201823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=saturn+in+libra+10th+housePDF 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_off00010ad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000122ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122EE 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 0df25b63676b7e69e1e5c8049fa8d346d27d0ff23f9e3b7f54f2496a5eb31813
font_02_sfnt_off00013b5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B5A 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 9c46d2d8848c6d3ddd0472e2b97f60b6ea07227f68d223e6d7b51b734cc02bb9