Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90c214badf79d912…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:47:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b19028c59bd09a452d2c913915974f44 SHA-1: 9795409549e890cefd66b2736ca3986885f3ab42 SHA-256: 90c214badf79d912981e877940b4a4fae6316f9d27bc7b6a9c40d362b776a97f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites or download further payloads. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=piano+tiles+app+download PDF link annotation
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/sovizowuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kligi.viart.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puzimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/210910070309823547zdl13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burnat-provins.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49817788190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250cc0b3ce165dff4fce52cc22f7a39b/84044293459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a9d1d6b92---66163412439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/podujadejevubufovemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioego.cz/userfiles/file/48161566873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138154f66a25---sutozibabebebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131bd25c4903---sofetufirupemobibexibiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lanaecoloridabruzzo.it/userfiles/file/vujef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ishvani.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10462614750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33048046268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielfelber.ch/userfiles/file/38552685632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmarysharipad.com/userfiles/file/99088472330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slstudio.it/userfiles/files/99659288748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokunoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55133764901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d7fb80ecbd4ad5c6220b50d118984bc/lunoremafitifonimizulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zivodogipatisofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbigas.net/media/files/nulusisofiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hejia-ele.net/upload/60904337373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af84acc936---19067242750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonezi.morefriendship.com/upload/files/84502705651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/56243099869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c743.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC743 16708 bytes
SHA-256: bf38203931640279c4f45ea7f54fe5b4d3b241c1704760cdaefc7cdf30e41e1d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF234 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A4B 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 1e31fb889cf58d66de90d11b3ce141dc6b9347b1db3f48509cbaa81dca91c510