Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90ddc5296f495609…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:54:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0fa29c5a478d89de6e154330179993d1 SHA-1: 06f52570c87956b3b2ca861f7bb23051d1f30274 SHA-256: 90ddc5296f4956092c0e19a28ca30ed6f2379ebe51495d9b3eb5d64e77cc4849
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=halcones+de+venta+libro+pdf+gratis PDF link annotation
    • https://lufty.cz/UserFiles/files/luxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/2780549222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ofmvuj08k9udq64ji6sm6gfn0/34849147114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlvasrq665f2hffa0uie33ra99/60749617453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nachtruhe.info/up/files/96122060655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/jotalogutunisixufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubelsendero.com/img_pag/file/69950729867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towa-aaa.jp/userfiles/file/pukugomije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezsprinting.com/userfiles/file/nupopevonajotifudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swiftnb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89143918393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almudenafernandez.co/ckfinder/userfiles/Files/50402165918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danguykhoidoanhnghiephp.vn/Upload/files/pepakotemoxetetun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/seporolukusazinavenufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55fa913519af92436a618ef58e6f2fbc/jawafutezutuxulebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urology-andrology.com/userfiles/file/91745824013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317a16b2c7e---wevuwosemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/87182669346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4e11b1a4f150b2728a39a8a13004550/botibiradopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/xosokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/21874926470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6a7153411---57114363611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/direm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/38357980185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/63135787434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1266830380.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b8eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8EB 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 4fd76db54816637bfc41010c92bce7360b4052d01a3e6ea0332a529550d0f958
font_01_sfnt_off0000d221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD221 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 6c6c987dc6839c9e1a000127c30da83d1d7812dfdc7cd466aaf4403bdc964832
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1