Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90c2a82f006ff98a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:54:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 72cc5362871a2813b38beb0a1bd8cd8e SHA-1: 1a0172a76d797104aa20c1ac6fd943722f056afe SHA-256: 90c2a82f006ff98a99b292bb3d8afd536335efbc001c3462ac9c8a96ff441ab9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these linked PDFs. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a malicious PDF downloader or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9682

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 http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/nenanesebakalaju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/raviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b01ece554---99638649353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizcsap.hu/files/file/rigajinulodasetofuwugukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210529_DA7EB64C7EBDDAE0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/31598676082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16qojrib5k70kbgo8c8t9v83e4/90401603129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ac12d727c---7177011108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8593baa75289427792d341bfa2981e1/3318223588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/131554421172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/liwimilepafodipafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/sekezurexanosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/14519189055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e56d2b922fab4fcb88a1a5bedfa96708/42656368298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44bf57466795182defa29f6b846542e3/lifiwutakajipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/149ad64858709e98d5088b63d1eaf61e/rebazefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffeetuanvang.com/Images_upload/files/19084744929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2bfab5d04b---79788974859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29fe618bf7---19535409006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9d48b9624---11040905259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f63b2740cd---72852953188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e54e410d43---mabopiranowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081478fe9a7d---disiwetaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aca9679e3e---81133025560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/gurenegibanojesetixazobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/tonawugera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=shadowave+username+and+passwordPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001159d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1159D 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
font_01_sfnt_off00012ba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA4 17956 bytes
SHA-256: 5b84014913798c1cdbf4609175f62e0c23b9edc25db38573eeeba351bed383c0
font_02_sfnt_off00015a79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A79 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 0a03b6a19e66ad40969aa5c906b9eb5d72d4aa452e2ef783fb758ad2198974ed
font_03_sfnt_off00017307.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17307 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1