Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90e0172a24982cf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 20:59:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 160245f84d19b9d21ceb432b3d77c83f SHA-1: daebb3bee9a6f33cf8ca589232a2d26670e5a56c SHA-256: 90e0172a24982cf7f9e7e89bb7ce0881732305e26f30d8f478360256857c0c9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other unknown domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to lead users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf86f9ead80---29949377497.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/vopurudiguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a334d2aac3---sunizijusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qhjfnaqfm81ve0c2u7g7gu05dk/66639780248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lm1i3jbtc5tbqa17pdbc8tcl8/duvozixusubimifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/84544653395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bc3d608e7---21874042765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728dbe5e14b---jifukuvozokizajewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4594b270e2---37916852587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/re2la9rh06v6hlb7ra1mddgsr2/89856258448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/2107031307096701171adfaa4xmxrp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ab6f7820a2f7673bd05658c27633a17/38018334056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysuji.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94953776581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cea3411c34016d7c286fdcbc8a37c2f/damex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903a4f2cd93---74448733955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe84778ebcb29214ec9e4175f5ed424f/39465553517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e437b6e78---bimelunuvex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/7965641983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1377a8c9195ffff303cf88be0c193d98/ratefarigiwivamivoterowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/mefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lusagroup.mobi/images/website/user/files/91522600059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69877287231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7f9efa849b19bc033d5aac159bbe91/89500474431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/94950346178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/69653902753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pacific+air+force+basesPDF 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_off0000ee96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A8 16444 bytes
SHA-256: 4c105e220baa1fb213a377777a1d36823009e1744af2360c7e8b1aae28bf3867
font_02_sfnt_off00013138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13138 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 2c130804067e7599be664a5d46ea467155fb0deeae9a2ab4b6a53f35feff9795