Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90dee88c8adfcb5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:12:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a4d99497544b074b021cf87b1fd9b64b SHA-1: d687c6482cb7a420390ee3f93b377721447a480e SHA-256: 90dee88c8adfcb5d8085a9b7c6a875c9ad5d7c848a69280c4aa4e4ea0b25ad55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=semerkand+kitap+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce570984ea---13733872782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egn8qtue40e4ir86kd3qjfn34s/jazilegimun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c745ee0a365---29155849214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f90832872---37986067113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/rigigesepogesezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/xovazilubuvusamose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/93302941165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35689013079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1622767359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adcbbai1bezln.xn--p1ai/content/File/xatafenujasave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eownauto.com/uploadpic/files/83661195757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avphunter.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35795331252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedexugulopatalojanituruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f2db0c710---45510730744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/zibirera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/minuzaviretuzajozemiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/14060745635.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_off0000e8c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C2 19052 bytes
SHA-256: 54bc21eff557597b0b10cc9a48d1b071132e77bcffd128b5c177d638aa91ae0c
font_01_sfnt_off000117c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C3 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 15e744e04ba43638ac6f3ce1bf189f5eb8fc65b595fc7df8053e1142bcc2a9a6
font_02_sfnt_off00012f94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1