Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90ca22275ac4bb84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b3d7c612ab077fbc1432a8160334b04f SHA-1: 0a22c142628420ba8e336b27595820322dee13f5 SHA-256: 90ca22275ac4bb841a22f267fcc16fa69926b385a57445ed91f79d5ad26b5125
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, including WordPress upload directories. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content, aligning with phishing or SEO spam tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://nezrenweb.com/calisma2/files/uploads/belefibidewikabopupozuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d2aca5eb0---81073246234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtdsbinhthuan.vn/public/uploads/userfiles/file/tukodivamipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/waburof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abbbb12aea---mejonegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca70b0ccc0---81679680559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/pagonekuxudukukodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewegigedowizuwigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ln80.cn/filespath/files/20210902160212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsnpharma.com/upload/files/39984260220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/78879741971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/xixaxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84992717275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/57303423788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/pijogonizidagimovokikogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokakazorija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mraos.com/web/userfiles/file/fifuxafikumepimuvufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d370abfba505fdd9a743b71df0999a4/76187298067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensi-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/23455174465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/64476288899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/53020535010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saddabro.com/userfiles/file/takir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbc7af2d577a86864ed6ac5197d6f517/bagopopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eefc85c883---gojonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+premium+vpn+for+androidPDF 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_off0000f87d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001108f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1108F 18756 bytes
SHA-256: 809c84aed4f768242b4cdfb2f4a1e87e5be639d641a8b1a782dee62256a90f5d
font_02_sfnt_off0001413f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1413F 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 3cf6059410646c5326bee6b3d75d27052e2f2ccff4a84c529a0fe2cd4182523b