Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90de03b550333a74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-09 09:02:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ea744f10c2065b5a181ea11aa7e1d750 SHA-1: 2c2a56154d3f82851543c746ccd2e605b8d65812 SHA-256: 90de03b550333a74a9ff29c8633832620206c20d4caa02e08eec5575abf80105
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft plugin uploads indicate a coordinated effort to host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077891ff2081---lerol.pdf
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa89789135b---18685279908.pdf
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca08e7806e---lerudusutezujiji.pdf
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/43908044996.pdf
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/pejugilisitisa.pdf
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpopo1jbrn20r6o0uf1jbgeasm/47011336815.pdf
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f724dda2c4---8069288583.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecdb10be84---69467843193.pdf
    • https://fotojursa.cz/userfiles/file/zasonejusokuzinegibame.pdf
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/5805821520.pdf
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f513eee725---69123795004.pdf
    • http://michaelwilliamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/98273689283.pdf
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gj4kmsgedbhac1btkk2c9bssko/rukarifexivipimaratab.pdf
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/66576325641.pdf
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///burunumuxevobisi.pdf
    • http://bwc.lt/i/65412862743.pdf
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/pidagavesi.pdf
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02983ef043bfb3d8b24bfb294bf6e161/3755648368.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdq72j3243pijde6tqmu148j4k/41198892810.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbb67e06e1---vokodejalubab.pdf
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b15e28c0ecfcfc33168134c524305277/tadomupaxok.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be41b7a2b78---76935989437.pdf
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5e49b8eb83---tesabiwelabiwusurokagur.pdf
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/90174235785.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=spongebob+sponge+out+of+water+full+movie+online
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab5332aac7c58da0be4ac056f54dff69/81943472292.pdf
    • 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_off0000d364.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD364 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb7b.bin
7b391d24b5f2f0db317f9a5356ec384c8e3d66d413a24685c01f4efcea9418f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7B 11168 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001056f.bin
d516141805acbbeccf19d5f168b64feb078008e23440221c7c2d171655dfdb4c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056F 17040 bytes