Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90a31a76a883061b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:26:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 565e691c7bc4652e70c5e69e2b50d165 SHA-1: 33b42a47b3a9ea17d55b0f3f7a3a4479784ea9e0 SHA-256: 90a31a76a883061b1ea59ca8a0e6f3bc746076d9e62a8e1af318403e64e2c246
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=singapore+map+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckpvfasr9ub58u8dmbba2o2221/17031209556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4396ea8239---9957779832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/widofinawebodebasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/9902308514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7049d1ebeadfd8fb3903582dd3f6e8a/momaborirekosugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/92702275788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c87888858---25523809732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edf1bb919bd---81201580822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105f018e77a6---84925841954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/2689283687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bd2d0b5d2---87305509324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transgusto.ch/userfiles/file/duzeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab1a797411---zewefadujokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a194b39cdc---wepofonibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/75922255538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5ee8623db---xakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/nixetizuxokeserul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a20405008d5cc8015410b3c48dd2ae/gumiguvaxavaseture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pluset.com/userfiles/pepaxevizurasoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40d6e787e7---82298831763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/60176920151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2144443e07---31548908631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teifsepahan.com/files/file/71299053482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bejofetovevenemiton.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_off0000c5c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5C7 18612 bytes
SHA-256: 1e60676f0b88ecb73bd734cd242aac18eca61d8289b03fc4755b859c61c07d48
font_01_sfnt_off0000f62f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E46 10736 bytes
SHA-256: de920f1247baeb46cd432bc0afd46fd649ecb37a161dc5ca8e6e237a32846ed5