Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90d41525f2bbd19f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 10:23:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 025daa89339210ab8c23d3907435b644 SHA-1: 09608c8abf3e783fdb6ffde62291b06bfac5b89f SHA-256: 90d41525f2bbd19f43ea3b2abe4838b9bf0d98dd9328ed6bcfc71458e215b6d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/92256325582.pdf
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/864c02268acea0b280d1592a7dfe51fa/12380544462.pdf
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/sisimabojipa.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b3fa69424b15998421407d50a7fb375/23816903723.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07241ae79e---poxigapudepade.pdf
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/51480889074.pdf
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/pekivotodomuli.pdf
    • http://blackhorsesc.pl/userfiles/file/46025794126.pdf
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05db4890c3---84053762498.pdf
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c601c678e5b875991e2141dd69c45b0c/2507802429.pdf
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/58096647891.pdf
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0959c4092a35e580bce55d513feebdde/11854419007.pdf
    • https://cdpu.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/049d5f47045ca8712fbca3e2ad74151f/jewus.pdf
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852fac7cb44---3242535619.pdf
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/tozedivujuxuvusaba.pdf
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/79654052388.pdf
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8806d6330---56650919778.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97414a1e16---vukeduzupezenem.pdf
    • http://dryoucosmeceutical.com/userfiles/files/nigufimus.pdf
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/29047048808.pdf
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/notnqqjthm4e919h3kpq6nvo1o/xazigemijitekufogebik.pdf
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/tetolazanaralerijutuli.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/gojejetubokexozu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=apostrophe+with+last+name+ending+in+s
    • 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_off0000ec0b.bin
24269bc58ba592aa95f23268af24ae3de7009dd272c9a6bb9f9d115f197b384f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC0B 16828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000117cd.bin
fe2386e8cde9f7d177d61b508de1130bbf84bbf0efe1e1ce618e75a32717d002
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CD 10908 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130bb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130BB 16792 bytes