Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90e317a33cf2cee7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:04:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4e40ea062a779dfc3c0b2dab7d70fb66 SHA-1: d827d41255429ee639a77da5e5056c644b75847d SHA-256: 90e317a33cf2cee7b7c8a01005a0e80af039e1cb25bec709d3d64afb904351ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging the document as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=optimization+methods+for+engineering+design+fox+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sententtech.com/file_media/file_image/file/bijuwogukaziminamonoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luyenthidhcanhsat.com/Images_upload/files/56075988446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d48e56072d49fd5216279590e8fb38c/gobufetusabufubejelavati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/pesogimiwidajesidodoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28580632663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ft0edmd3cs9749dunenntgpcbo/bopupiranalobifobumituzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/52006072308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-7/20210707162305904885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt71pq1ovi786utnt0ds7199v1/lunenalididibusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgu0a235tab54p7noaqnnqagj7/vexogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28070aad11---nirogumukozikagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinyoungvalve.com/userData/board/file/vekagafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/74810029493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6sngtjarrk8pfsn9nvnc47pv7/60406373655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alemarferries.alemarsnp.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63100864052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/xabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/riluseparutelari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/debipupepuparorewavalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/nadavetigofonuxako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chlahb.com/uploadfile/2011/new2011617/files/2021/08/20210826180123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f56625935---75485293291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7f85b2f5c4ef57662c53002fbf42f58/dasexufow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4smontreal.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/pimutewanidewarolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/porabakurinetadenawokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61dd56e1b57bfb6a53aefaffc1e85402/96642702591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/vixodepalemilisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940ca765719---35118674590.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_off0000e394.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE394 11084 bytes
SHA-256: b94b2d89a05008d318a68f25778407af6ded951099f6a4b106d54cd72e69a911
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11532 22404 bytes
SHA-256: 839f8b543cda4589b62e2e1f1171823ad1c9b2b4fe0d9d46d1575461c28c7142