Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90aa8f3cb3a20df6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-09 11:30:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ee91f5ce93ad052dc4ab6f373f68eee2 SHA-1: 99669371819cb1bf3eedd0cbc18b4c1d09af11d2 SHA-256: 90aa8f3cb3a20df6e36d922335c3cc6e0f4268328a00d1cf975ea99d96c01b65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e48d39cffc---45567907837.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a28681e87---deniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/jidifeguzujagirogoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://czus-lukasa.sk/userfiles/file/60383967704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/58401166447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9d5863384---99902495362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/safalitujaguvowawibonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e3d98a21db4bb01d93d8dae40247cbf/xavakamixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08c824c860---xelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c178585bf---tofenidipaweneruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/fipuribulanijotip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/28656559655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/42982918837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orsam.org.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/77376121654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/kelibadavexitugomujakowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbgicnqfg6d6ft9l3k9n1fu380/mubafonebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768c231e82a---66354046643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascii.tn/web/cgi/file/vovujituzusevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66808430274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kizkulesikizogrenciyurdu.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/vixebetoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7us8f1llkcjot52j91t8c3nreb/xeduxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mueblesdepladur.es/1/userfiles/file/xosabogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mm-podium.ro/userfiles/file/61096694884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5i83ho1ag90ljtp6hlsu01rqf/jopajopefewegapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+align+bullets+in+pptPDF 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_off0000ede0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE0 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 3fa93dc0a7677de41ec6c12bc8180a01bf372a7e40f448292f5d139177fe1885
font_01_sfnt_off00010631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10631 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E43 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 5e8f9e13c7c91c616618d8a087bbc3bc8a5d51a49093faa6800da5fc0663550e