Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90f12f875f56fb82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:50:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 25c38e85802343f366d79f1561257835 SHA-1: b0cb442cdb7fec76a008448294ecd9d8200795c5 SHA-256: 90f12f875f56fb82720c4c648216b4814f58a93091dc8073615db8af20fa0466
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Static analysis reveals it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829f45c2552---21723035103.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d4e264fb2---48704998043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c79961c830---39817700827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c731664804b3fc6a00ade329bbb1bb85/puzivujukusewar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c240c0dee---fesuruxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/tilapodojevojujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/pezinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/jidozekamudomusopebavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb6441567f99d35338ba182e7cec5105/gutopejesafilosameniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070511d3f842---kudidotizugojenokumabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f33992ad3---sawujor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/wikogujane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/kibofogatalerugorilubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/nesutogokuroleni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49059199142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/32412223443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jmrob9aoi6u3t0usbs0gqg3sg/navegomaxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/lutorafiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/94355118371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usbsmosgbh4k03huc9t4loe15r/78925464503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b55aaaf10---rivejogaraketuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18428166128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca4ba360845ba7de7c496e863f18dcec/64042074712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6bb57598aea219d16355119340b3f5f/zakanetomezigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076881faaf54---63075883754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=solving+systems+of+inequalities+by+graphing+pdfPDF 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_off0000bf33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD745 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 82e16b408273a9f8eeb839ced1a03dfbf43837a4dbe188507a657ca8ec04edcc
font_02_sfnt_off00010558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10558 11584 bytes
SHA-256: b3e42ccb5c734d2177ccb873eae67c6a9074905b977797da255f1123fb895688