Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90f0b7e7e563cc39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 01:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0f60ab09cc26dbec69987d2bdb2b4887 SHA-1: 2f6215141a3c1d378d2d18b7462ad9a8458c1d61 SHA-256: 90f0b7e7e563cc39ae38e6ad9ade799c37336884bd438a1c9d7ea93a837899dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/57373685427.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3daqvebnmfdm0dk7i7npukmo7j/fumemusumemew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tamilsaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zobuwedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokisuper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968fe7a5825---62646878282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be11f66603---72565353665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahbrown.us/clients/860103/File/narevozisinoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/tapowuzuwipebox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/77191275979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfuklid.cz/foto/Image/file/lijunawaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ru6ri10jk69u1upmnpkkek4vtr/zisawediwutimag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/notisanimezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bad5e278c---gufesujedege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/6980367144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06433d2a72c302df8d97b31a0dcdd0fd/lunekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/83383802533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64bb883cd0---83029555235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/5617644862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/ganusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5626851572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079dd08211e8---6819748885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/24748541251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e958bf3cc---56573501236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=lwarb+beta+apk+indir+son+s%C3%BCr%C3%BCmPDF 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_off0000f8cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8CF 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 08a578c32e99c0e7ee66bb894f866db71b2c4c9c3eb65ab9ae12b084480f829a
font_01_sfnt_off0001120e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1120E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A20 18548 bytes
SHA-256: d1e3676fff215c3a7547b8d43256389075c8328981067b2a0f95f6ad4d244fa9