Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90f829d087a244bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 10:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c9c9e1e01a2f365e2f41092c6ae7f586 SHA-1: db538696bc7e0d2028cb2059e8487b631eb25a8d SHA-256: 90f829d087a244bf409439b2ee64804591997044492daa6ce38b59b0b43204fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for link farms, further supporting malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=annual+dinner+invitation+email
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840027021af---33684672273.pdf
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210504130455127.pdf
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/zorodenad.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609499e89b2e6---22526030521.pdf
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/91344493734.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811da36ff09---63985115594.pdf
    • https://mzlpro.com/web/img/podborky/files/14368268349.pdf
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3a2271be5---53867247851.pdf
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c9f972241aa8c3f6197dd62f4d6bf36/jatirulevurogifesugid.pdf
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083369a413d4---ratelidogifesofifibomi.pdf
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/82675128467.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3d8418699b65f2dd1bd674f5af06470/nivorowosegi.pdf
    • http://vienkiemis.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/zikujutasuxagabenix.pdf
    • http://hoangminhceramics.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/dalidizozamagap.pdf
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/59814452441.pdf
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895fb09a028---wasatefimogipamezuve.pdf
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/nelorikatoka.pdf
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/45299722954.pdf
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/sosasolagesavorowifeve.pdf
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nemmu7e2p1dan2ednl4185sj5k/gutawonalidasifimukaz.pdf
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/823028ede9b9763cea7c1905322a7e89/30733057916.pdf
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/wetowirizasa.pdf
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608202e28dfbc---fikobivexe.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4ea.bin
aafc09f9f658381f04b0c8a5717953b3cd639f5835ba33adc8461b69a51157fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4EA 10388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc5e.bin
6ec3d5502e07191f6ae069f3492bdffd504348805b13e00209d6840b21c5c91d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5E 17788 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012afc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AFC 16792 bytes