Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90fddd4bfe0bc33c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-07-23 04:10:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: cf34e355f85373c2df9520c47227b695 SHA-1: e74905793af395a097492fe6b5a6e469cfca2116 SHA-256: 90fddd4bfe0bc33cfe1f8fe751d42de77ad67f125b9c1bb82f3839a9cb3cde36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to numerous external URLs, with several hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content via embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/31564735999.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/87704892802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/vatutazofetatamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/72700525752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/ponodebina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/mugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754d7e1e830---69421396721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/sibitobogemuxumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da02465693f331aafe187fcad0d51aba/41709763815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec95a6e3d8---22051980190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/vemegupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/56570871569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32d120e0ecd3eee2892dc13f3a4b1d53/mipofeverugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/31510476757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b007a02d044---xoxavidenupebofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/tovazubiriserive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbfb4ce05b34a0a3ab65341658c7dae7/55936262516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gehklbkqlbill78h58l0mtqc51/52517825650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdcnvmcp89huhlp1v62m2r0f97/90865873111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/26172439451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a954aca64d4---59850336617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unplbn8k6thtqe40d1e4biher7/jebubofuxamiralokote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qp8q3h7lgu6fi7piek9ofr8d43/tezozudinuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/zejoporimurotivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=interview+practice+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off000113f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012c09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C09 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 1a468ba3d8f029da778e3782aea646c5e333c4ff24f4e66d6d3cb11047bffbad
font_02_sfnt_off00015ab7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AB7 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 5988af1ca390981217abc9789660b1f68a845416c5ae1a098ed33068f07ac426