Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90f868f2e0155593…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 04:13:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ffea6b26ce6565d506b428e652e38b76 SHA-1: 48fe1892f9a5b79530cf3bf0656bdf2e3c2740aa SHA-256: 90f868f2e0155593986f8eded95459019078d2feb7389498cb497bc147e43046
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, many pointing to disposable or potentially compromised hosting, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/92821899420.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147b7c50889c---libinesatonosutitesa.pdf
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/zewip.pdf
    • http://www.photonics-science.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53668299033.pdf
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/fodixawukotusovomepab.pdf
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ce25f89d73---xuzobo.pdf
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/tukisurimanaj.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da07dd9e42---zajevekab.pdf
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/69741692217.pdf
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/6445369338.pdf
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b58f767e8be1c9ae041577707d39e1bc/zobezif.pdf
    • http://uelzecht.lu/userfiles/files/48501947855.pdf
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/nomezivifuvumur.pdf
    • http://tandartsindex.nl/images/uploads/senopezezurovulezumubevak.pdf
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161350ac2112df---70421303856.pdf
    • http://www.sandipmallick.com/fckimages/file/giwezepireked.pdf
    • https://indiansabroad.uk/userfiles/file/woxoxikate.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613852d6371f4---26484047186.pdf
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/27728814029.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/folemug.pdf
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/71310198234.pdf
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95558800732.pdf
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rimejojafebig.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=moto+rash+download
    • 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_off0000e291.bin
8c474c294f588038150c4a9c29e85b2cd4ef41354abaebd2a368a68f96b02d7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE291 10200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f96d.bin
1cd7b262d322ceddb04f931073f5ded087704d0e9a54a9e8187f9c541765f47c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96D 17236 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000125d6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D6 16792 bytes