Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90e060c1397fed87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:16:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e05673634553b28615457ca7b50bdac4 SHA-1: 74350b4c3a1901360cc8d33132ee5076e98ae6f8 SHA-256: 90e060c1397fed87003f6b55c9bcb9a964a662e0cbb4681681e4dde4d85b3be7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the document is designed to drive traffic to external sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+visit+from+the+goon+squad+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/veloneteni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmduncanrealty.com/userfiles/files/limibegajaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/tulifisube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/64600290445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/98581978617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjbfjt.com/upload/files/zusupodide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/sigebejudiwuditetemowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/67620302765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenayu.com/filespath/files/20210913094547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/24876636535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/81598500573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobilestore.de/userfiles/file/55305396505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-motorcycle.tw/upload/emotorcycle/files/38238817222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorlookup.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61078078033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/xidokogorepinono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutipatika.hu/userfiles/files/laxosamegixowukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92357101936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/lowimewumazedibopuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130bb2c65d14---28982421325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/50606632961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a6b9bf2e4d---89093793587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gornjastubica.hr/files/zuburizejexakupazuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.lv/userfiles/files/vokelojeselifikisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b9759905b---98614243840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161462e10992ee---29457737197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/fevavozeteta.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_off0000e04e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04E 11192 bytes
SHA-256: fc3860c8c298cc3f598abd2f765dc2c3cbfbca93ab936a1392a828de1dd9f573
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D6 17460 bytes
SHA-256: e8f1fe9b6fbc257aa28424d1f414e217aaee3efa09d62b01ca85a7d02bdf8eff
font_02_sfnt_off00012731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12731 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1