Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90f8de0f91e64cd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 03:49:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a3e11a9d4e8c4abeb791b5466cdf2508 SHA-1: 5d8b8461b74641e6b428096c1cdad1154779e6cc SHA-256: 90f8de0f91e64cd7258bcef58afe0bf2ea13f98aa8645a8f9911268d05afbf1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=smartphone+presentation+powerpoint PDF link annotation
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/rilalogixugonol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peggylittlelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28826082971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekmaker.com/upload/files/56041551684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitacasa.it/images/file/fikotizizava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/12408802299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/55054642955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladymamashop.com/uploads/files/202109071320346332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bushurov.ru/images/files/37251332517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorsexpress.biz/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/jiridipamowelupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f579aa3d6a---9493478185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsslife.net/upload/ckfinder/files/zobuwinabarelitobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/wotebejejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-saikung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lufuwivejepena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/ledafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alburigiott.it/userfiles/files/sexijuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garraldaarquitectura.com/garralda_userfiles/files/88797299233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/43264406113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d59b0f56a99ab9eabfcef9bb9bac35e/84879646028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416462b3944---xetivopiloxamokinupaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/53916574540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/resafoxasefileked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/biduwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210906092903_450039285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spandoekland.nl/userfiles/file/65364390158.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_off0000de0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF622 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 9b331bea0e9f663e571367d01f23c01fbc3cfa2f3d323cc84c45c170e751e2b4
font_02_sfnt_off00010e4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E4D 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 41db0acc706e486fa7c24fe07d50a61a4dcb3b0234e27552881f01228d3bb81d