Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90d4da1eecbd499c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 12:33:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: eac0ad292ab35b3401248a761d426a0b SHA-1: 88b822ee38e0d60f4b941e6b2042a39eb339db2f SHA-256: 90d4da1eecbd499cb47f067c910c86088bea06f98d786b4dd53edb766e3facde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress installations, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised sites strongly suggests malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a7dc40906---vetekegagiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c33d2994e---58601893867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traviet36.com/upload/files/zizumarugiwivilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1588024a8c11729bc1853e8963d8c422/gegukatinanexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wita.lt/images/files/44871710162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1554aa60a5---wixilabapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/95925483699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh9jolbdrjtkd86os66n2fbg6r/kunofuguxutuxadijimene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/96426496897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/43487450521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/xusebewogukaberexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842bb279295---mikojomizubadusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/letabixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf60ab0d085---79096744879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtglass.pl/upload/file/pabivotipiwofiwatif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/tuxerozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74091369ab43b61236eacbe8dc720837/80151027473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/88217576705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/664a76e036a1319bf2dd051c5bc6c52b/zaradavubimazowaloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a3f046b8c02961118d320cbcef3eadb/88161544197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/lubimafofamuzepibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82344429435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/famezevizafokagatulijuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=all+summer+in+a+day+text+pdfPDF 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_off0000f60d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF60D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1F 17384 bytes
SHA-256: ab564bad0046f35ff9003e46af05189842439249d7927c08743bf75d425ca4cf
font_02_sfnt_off00013bc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC7 10836 bytes
SHA-256: ff369c2c1f13b50fa4ef1ed4397cdf02c6dcca4feb7b161ed434767a8a340e9a