Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90ac9d57434bda8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 19:55:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 29bc05fabf6cd6a451ab9a1743e289d3 SHA-1: aca9b7eddc43c38170d7fa1172eb6ef6e74b41b1 SHA-256: 90ac9d57434bda8e5914ff27ea0d9072aa29e67d819b49a23369df69dcc8300b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to trick users into clicking links that lead to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28447523665.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1c517a40f---sokezumagezegivizebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ratafabivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/tiwoxopetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/56845045606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48892898507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temdientu.vn/images/ckeditor/files/34114065363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siriusdynamics.com/assets/uploads/files/jadawofepulufuzobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/gejamewewasuwepasezojikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents/files/28336919240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8e4297d0cdb739f9bb29cbd01ab3f99/bovebotoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanespresso.com/espresso_ckfinder/userfiles/files/70059969531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aramlasmerok.hu/uploads/file/biwomeleguziwegipelofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easy-sleep24.de/shop/images/editorfiles/file/disitukujetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilsk.torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/27231083161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pracowniatechart.pl/fckpliki/file/83673572017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eijo.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wozoteretipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c94b7e560a2364e73742a3a4a33557/71346443147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/totutawuzuwuriduwarejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesgo.de/userfiles/file/vijepawavikosawovepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84967718173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62774551809b373076804ca94bb4d2b3/45204772072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/vuteli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=like+a+house+on+fire+cate+kennedyPDF 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_off0000ae99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE99 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc8d09e294680397cba844ff8d215592211cdb82d99ec8179c4b3f77718c8e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000c777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC777 13664 bytes
SHA-256: a363ab6a7a6fe19caa04f8e69658a614b47f92d8ea2183a25cf10e25c8fec39f
font_02_sfnt_off0000e911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE911 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1