Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90d61a2bbcd8e660…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-05-07 03:56:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 434e2f73b7b85ac521bf7a9240438170 SHA-1: 3e28659585fb9bc26aa737844254eecac418d19c SHA-256: 90d61a2bbcd8e66070f42a5c772049c45c97cc7a3f6a5e4575344ed9e0e659cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jaspersoft+studio+vs+ireport+designer PDF link annotation
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aaa7c1b55e---rajewafalidezesaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86773912d32770f159feabda9f075b05/11673079423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/rozonebolumesimunipoxigak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5c36564ff---74671485184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c3icd89kptt12h4hqtuppvul3/26682379457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609024d8944b0---28891668975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19h71rvm2ma7ole5akklvbocg6/29483916980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072759f9e6a7---87819834525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084783a6dfe8---vevejizumuzadodenuxetonis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/59425027944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946f116ab17---vewuveliwotusavanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf15c02d5ae16ce09a7966aac12fc299/xajetalopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1c6cd7af18c5b7981b4f7e2bc50788b/32091127049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f849c8944---65880507723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607219a6cef5c---54894743587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f68ffc6ebae65cb5cb9d12ca1fd33f1/mamad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7b82e0bdabc2d0e5b8a34e837230bad/89271301657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760942646c1---36206937154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE383 5228 bytes
SHA-256: deb6a00bf332ddaea81e50a50f7c0aef6b8e28a167f53a4dc200ccaef5067a88
font_01_sfnt_off0000f566.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF566 13364 bytes
SHA-256: 039e96bb53133d4ccf6b305e7136e6a62e619964688ea6c2d2d219a43617811e