Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90ac53ebb6e56543…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-22 05:58:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 0463931a93cdd7edf7c155133bd5858b SHA-1: ec7866511912b8f973af9a4f34e09f538bdd488e SHA-256: 90ac53ebb6e5654313e5aa4ae376c9c823a0fe08e01e5c60b728aa18d5b07702
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific intent beyond malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08a744f816---76267772775.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/96976958162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsultantrading.ae/userfiles/files/44543501466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/22411888478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc7b9b97c5f---97318411429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3bfe148df7---66672218482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de1254a632---gapulasapopubugaziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/71111520719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/wulinomezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/xidakekobufafumekuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef29751474---45275178885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d17e9e7a3b---gabufepazulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210707/210707191517171269gdcsmgf9ka2h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burfel.ru/upfiles/files/falowoxavaguwujir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/nitewesolejewizabir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needlugs.com/userfiles/files/78027667444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609decb89fae7---31815418989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoradiator.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/46150868214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac63fa4d547---marukewibivasedexoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hojv9251qdnn9ldcf9qqh3mcm/wugibigupiberusagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/51121361315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amajyuku.com/files/files/12967962623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ae36f3ce8---21890507894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+pdflatexPDF 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_off0000f2dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DD 18364 bytes
SHA-256: 0aa6de35a43243dc6bf0ad88398d1fc119ce39ba8a439474500a3d7ee1c96181
font_01_sfnt_off000123a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A4 10472 bytes
SHA-256: f6dfcc9bc295062980a261faa18f0f60c59e8693f6ba11e80a03ea6cb1c7e3ff
font_02_sfnt_off00013bb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1