Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90c8c86f513cc9ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-08 14:37:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 294015c92bab75a2c6414fdf40ffb4d3 SHA-1: 0c002259b1fde159a28e10a30cb296a09c1203e9 SHA-256: 90c8c86f513cc9ffdd0977d0d8d330a8b03898dc7b45708a1acc8dab879167a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and potentially other malicious domains. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=print+writing+practice+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c251911decb---66628790598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8fa123a587---zuvunikejuwemonuvafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3e0ad8f005815a31b04b7313879e6c1/99842058486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a30cf1fcc---62663884397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/23586545605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0669827e0c30d854d816d4e36ea8ada/39521911156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/ximevoxirapotaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58465058224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/lajupudumefugafabejomabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72cb16fade2314f26ed7ab83cf166c34/dubazavasolofakawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/sedonurebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategieb2b.com/userfiles/file/dodonirel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835efc42546---52211691315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/vewezadokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e269da70cd6cdfe5571c3ea87df19032/nubusiligugipitenugegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/nukajatiremutigabope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/nezatagofusavidixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/sexotuketikatoreberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5189287571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/19323280148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/93662600786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d0227971a---katiximovutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nz/upload/99515717407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/vodatutekebosamataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/zonolas.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_off0000f4b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B7 10784 bytes
SHA-256: b59d4f6fb42da1eb75bba670c7294035a42ccb74dba88e8ac88da2456e5647ef
font_01_sfnt_off00010d97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D97 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 2cf24b8330a750c233dc43a6839875c31df29b427cd1b6c1d45e2d4bbd410f4e
font_02_sfnt_off000139f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1