Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90dd7d04d8c91fb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:57:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ab09b72a6ab1c0685fe2eb115cc4291e SHA-1: 2af4cbc47a65442e613ce1f77e14e3ea65e18f9c SHA-256: 90dd7d04d8c91fb705d61aed7a41347c7abd89a0d91f5247d11494c577b9e774
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0a4c09637---41747280692.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e101ccd01---7702839487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/504b44766d552aa89cf417c3b753860c/78198091924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/7764059330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/ruxigezuwevenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hmh.sk/files/articles/file/33287789285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/49186899720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.azurwelcomeservices.com/userfiles/file/33060182131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a191c1912bc---83404655052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lscapital.it/images/file/73770113996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d7p0jj30q0b8kgqqie495pd1/14956222291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35421101386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/57202277249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/nipewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/saxaruxemuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/84803504932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e60e9165c1---lakoliwepeboxite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b81a451f7e786ee074b189bcd0c558f/luxinujijebadosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdfstore.it/file/megezukujubewijusadiwami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/majufimudosejidovevux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b7afebf6a1c8a12849d16b4f7485007/23541504444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ff91b2fbab34266f1e5d090c5c7ae5/rurakikadefamugizomibum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=8th+standard+5+in+1+guide+english+mediumPDF 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_off0000d49b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD49B 19528 bytes
SHA-256: 1faad86e7fb0607a65a9572cc89ffa8752052398ddb760a3654406289675a615
font_01_sfnt_off000107d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D5 10972 bytes
SHA-256: a55fbf1234406d8b52edabd060fe323fac2274e83a73bcce548ca5d44473e6de
font_02_sfnt_off000120fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1