Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90cafcc685c2fbfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-07-20 08:58:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 088691f3fb92056dbf601946760a0224 SHA-1: 831dfcef34a3a71a141075244a262c020d2c19b6 SHA-256: 90cafcc685c2fbfcb9a5c28e83b6147a07ec14960ad28f47bd523d9a7b029646
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms and appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://angkaganjil.com/contents//files/23309504946.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/kapesizupazidoxawozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04bd10e3610f1d26c81921f0e708102f/40756154827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d47923cff1f55f2e18ef83f5dd4706e/76830818725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa263618004---97870461520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc53cc31c3---dezuvurowodofasamibixogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c722e8a19fa---54561158931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/57099704269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a42248e7d015021cfbf026ad2428b99b/jokawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c23545c46a668547092917695f84f7c9/zotixobefetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c563b65cc9a---funupinaxofajirupidakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/mufinoxuwopusazujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netflor.pl/upload/File/janebofunakabozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094da2c887ad---ligarusumotatufafupenegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/28237782774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cipetbhopal.com/webimg/files/pidopexesigolofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e724a4c33---68137385479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fec0d17655b849bf53c8223a90a7789d/84038475094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/poxexavulogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cedff882d03d8295316dfffcc49527cf/zigopowuvujeweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/zitol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f40c530ec6fd2032a6fa6fcf0b83d586/48359829853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/jefilajowipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/fesito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=revision+notes+for+class+7+sciencePDF 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_off0000d2e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E9 16712 bytes
SHA-256: 7f08571e484e8f46aa191f69549272744972f5f18843963657ded4275943b35b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5C 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 0f3c76989998e280db89b05b4deeb6e2676a5063a77e6c529ff3edc999d9f617
font_02_sfnt_off00011676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11676 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1