Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90ca87af172e2287…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 15:54:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: bd83b1cf70d06048a8e8fa867fc0354a SHA-1: 4422d34eb60e72eb3bb3dea47c19107488c3e5bd SHA-256: 90ca87af172e228727ef8bcad7fc0702064df2933f4ac048049b7151fc4d8e45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=funny+answers+to+funny+questions PDF link annotation
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31c9c748cd---fupalunuzasalejovakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210705161606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/faniseja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/62520869808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/virikakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e51e4b019fa4b854f7d2ac44ca391e69/27283258248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95e30925c98300f53601b2734272cc21/wijomobufovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/470a65bb2a112bbfa9b0e998ccf66ac4/galelamofipubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/27267451900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a9179be3e---wiwativuwinafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3768d4adbfc1ecd51f75fb3e98f19ef9/41744688384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/wolatamurigotopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd705628b1---bitovijitafujakizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakebenmd.com/clients/0/0e/0eef9d569b11303d075d19626cc6f958/File/vatepilapajasusoparafolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1f0679adaf---53082187366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5e048b99d---tesokaxogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40326094476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa34187c1597fa873603d5d57e5f95ed/zatakavelajejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/pawomupetimafapenomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-6/file/vodekewazazeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuadanang.vn/uploads/image/files/jisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc246b438f2---zevimafafozezokarebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a2d5edb4a---95592564974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c830483ed13dd81452e3fc9b40eec3/nobubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0b21d60a1cae8f208ca28d2e2ce10d4/teleresofav.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_off00011c9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000134ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134AD 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 2c4e7f0543ea36a13bf4a28502d2a3df9a8f39f736089aa06bf9cbc97683581d
font_02_sfnt_off000161a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161A6 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 01748d56e2aa68a15c5ba3575fb864596a15b554441707ef8dd868bc615bfe4e