Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90b6795ed34ce3bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 05:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: c11c730f582aed1264b772acd481f09a SHA-1: dca9fa17d464c0b69443bb8f127934733186407b SHA-256: 90b6795ed34ce3bbd58cba88de625acc1a098710244ee6cb7f6f57c275bb734f
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and it contains embedded JavaScript. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and employs a social engineering lure to prompt the user to install a browser extension or update. This suggests the PDF is designed to facilitate further compromise, likely by downloading and executing additional malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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 http://nincity.de/inline/file/51344196839.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tonmathunglan.vn/upload/files/97942369148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/26669499155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produse-zilan.ro/files/69620707798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/sitenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicalelaique-guyancourt.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuxatabijetan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-marche.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boxazixorenonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/vebibuvijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52812896176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeline-sports.com/files/file/dejokorajetavedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/84509811786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/532845777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d6c9a50629a2508b0e2644eb6de92ee/79376932128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613321c801008---38627361539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/gonugaxinogokotipaxivugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60704541973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02cc7f32abe2078caf953f8020c80011/nidelube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/56091563672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqeui7t6k31fpso3p5sk24g163/53085823679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sor1310.com/userfiles/file/93196938973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed7a86275f09e63a00a197f09f0af995/nakepereri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reaga.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavisikozanili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/luwuwuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=subjunctive+mood+worksheets+with+answers+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_off0000d8c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C7 11528 bytes
SHA-256: cc8cd179752ec6cf4a55a7913eb940bdfaa078e24d578db5ea1ee948a23581c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B8 16928 bytes
SHA-256: ce9253e0ccc9b7adb54ddcf5fb4db430910fec5a45f5f609ee87a4c3fcafa05e
font_02_sfnt_off00011fb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1