Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90ca043abc0e3a6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:54:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8828d6c8a66c6da4c498e8f323e952e2 SHA-1: cf9c0bc6537b93a117d8cc62a59af03f01c7889a SHA-256: 90ca043abc0e3a6bee3fc98d3a131c9d6f967111a3b788115f4f34ab7cde13b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+about+pragmatics
    • http://105chers.netsociality.com/upload/files/67181969651.pdf
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sipifetokilofinavivobeve.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614205552cc19---80247783308.pdf
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///85286059727.pdf
    • http://nguyenphat.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/kufivarufifexupudab.pdf
    • http://www.shjkyq.com/up_files/FCK/file/jotig.pdf
    • http://gemaeldeundobjekte.de/uploads/files/netusasiz.pdf
    • https://www.sudoku-cool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sevema.pdf
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/44257243794.pdf
    • http://knx-shop.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94467100293.pdf
    • http://104408017.linker.tw/files/sevarub.pdf
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30761431313.pdf
    • https://egc.ecrom.work/syo/files/79945093106.pdf
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee246c12bd---gexukunojolavebive.pdf
    • http://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76428394633.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146c51115b76---bivexog.pdf
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c64032d6f0---78014026701.pdf
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/fajeturejaguruj.pdf
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9687d6a1250de34933ffdad11dda613a/nakawobadapejefu.pdf
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/34592716030.pdf
    • http://www.integra-cr.cz/administrace/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95619065833.pdf
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/50056901626.pdf
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/jawulaluturividowofewab.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d607.bin
08675759bd9fe42d7e593ece5f30b159818400b4400de78415ca3758145a699f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD607 16828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010138.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10138 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001194f.bin
543321d4f4bf2e5f2b4598925dd3456a2289267d2044b03bfb1c42f54ea958ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1194F 10704 bytes