Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90fe4e88b56d9510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c4f38a2489f7aba396b5cc2cd630d7db SHA-1: 0f293db8bc6ad21e2cc9e33e3e55c47eb25e4433 SHA-256: 90fe4e88b56d9510e9fc73d4348b9361f328d0a2c1def0a2f1b0951938ed6703
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic firings indicate a link farm designed to redirect users, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=financial+accounting+information+system+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rsr9atm32u93gmjqle8e9ua7d/papegaxotidafetawakal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/wanenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/mokifopoxezonetufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pekingtogo.com/uploads/files/93432616485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606db9eacc1ea---51899679428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/86865313313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecb90c9129b---68559205011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/vedozesuxikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16092605f12f96---pakulorejovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vf58s9sem2f94120mpaorrg7jl/numudojaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1458f7fd4b5cce29820640fbe078f38/28929194583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f398290da27c99394b47dfa4cce09d3c/81060377751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c3a549e5e5ebf4b0bde584590ee8010/28967909000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/fonejojuduveliwuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images/fck/file/34708180537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161031332124cf---dupetemivifepikisiwudokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skazka76.ru/pic/userfile/95859006403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/lefabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/91299372980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c60db5c5de57ebe32c914d0df62203e7/zosiluvuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c778252c9b---nabonufex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa01125834b---wiwojoteberam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/nipuzikunete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/67906446068.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_off0000f3bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BB 11156 bytes
SHA-256: ded3b8f88ea31f671459345b204082e77ff84bdbeab229fbaeda3d485028f468
font_01_sfnt_off00010da3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B5 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 373cd5974bb19bb1bb1090cb28d71cd48204be8a5873c948eac684541b7b9678