Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90b37e664998e515…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bee059de8a47ab308249abca47f8f381 SHA-1: 0518d34a119bacd7e09f8f95ffbb924e3e01560f SHA-256: 90b37e664998e51589e1a6361d9ce6a68db8735c3feab2f39326dba9eef9a84b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites or download further payloads. Several heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35cecdce1f---zifugujijisegosebowotavej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfr9sqjth751cj8aiagqgu9olm/16507104844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/72261055164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/dategikaxexamurofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanarotalk.com/userfiles/file///virolutujipiduli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607567f492b96---16633162327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126d6d2ec46c---towisenikiwepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/givigenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/baribijuvesaxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c150c1acb60---64994413702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuadiemtayninh.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/98095988460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/zazideralutosipukifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///75213135864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsinphar.com/uploads/files/zumazesaboduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garageanything.com/js/upload/files/36081744096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d0e37a2af---53035277139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/64279565343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasciindia.com/firetech/ckupload/files/39223860682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/45531749938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5i0vedvboa3v9cb8jf29jb120/14954432688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e1ed2673c---gajuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/63125925096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=abdome+agudo+em+pediatria+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_off0001137d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137D 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 59a79d69ecebe5667664c456d8c65bc12af9fd321f94b98207683b9d5c90d43e
font_01_sfnt_off00012bce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000143e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143E0 21392 bytes
SHA-256: bdef36edc5714b9cb0e779958dee464852e2e976d408871a60a1334035e6352c