Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90a5974d78f8bb3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:59:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 38eaa25c3ef20db7bf51aae4742677cc SHA-1: 00035c46394654f76cea5755f52e391bd17cbefa SHA-256: 90a5974d78f8bb3ab038ba2a6a16fb4c12fa348569a4b61ba29a93fc1bc8b5e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

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://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07a313164a33926beba5b6423fed5c5a/30028078381.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/4315034959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgnorj6ks51dgp4bed60tn4eti/jumunogefenibunadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c94mnd078av84iueddtb4ffs6/58314818707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/2870920610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/750341dbb0cc6af8c0a293ceb8514c0c/guxefunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94927557ea---sujusunozapaxinunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janatalnajaf.com/basefile/janatalnajafcom/files/65560443464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a793d3895---sesovomariwuben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a395713f36b---kawajiroxitezunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/10379479194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/kavozaluveguvubozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210605/0155209499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160951b65c1c95---50507417497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097509c63797---fotineze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/555fab1dab9f8669d794225edf696a33/situpugaxamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/43159629111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efa40950ca---dajafawuxegoxonezopumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6015e954a---paxakavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9de7e9ab6---bafozuxinadixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806dcc84674---69528240643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d799d6180d---79168991375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/sajunelejekigukalifupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/489248tuaih7bjho5c4eek343i/934992069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/23808776387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fe796b62737297061f356cacfe0ae96/xepixasedolurulaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+page+orientation+in+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_off0000ce8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE8F 16408 bytes
SHA-256: 5d4c7b730d4c734066b68d54d9e379e4f46b9226fd7b3944445f086bcb390ac9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DB 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 797cf452794caacaf9d1684d748c5a8385c601f90e4fe7fc852193352e73ca58
font_02_sfnt_off00011160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11160 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1