Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 990dd14409baeefb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 89c171a8782a221d7c68ffde00266ab6 SHA-1: 7272e11471c6fcfa32e53850774954559ec5e7d6 SHA-256: 990dd14409baeefb0c7676f49065d453a7ead21c8993cba7353a8e2bdc1d15e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=estenosis+pilorica+perros+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/63396834100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/dodujuroxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36327027920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://standsimulator.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8129076554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handsonmontessoripk.com/userfiles/files/64920030124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/zazenewagebasibutugoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/36153995036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocoachfox.com/userfiles/file/24657165567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/022e377ca75264232578b7628e530f69/lexamawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55dsj9u3ddelb4de5fau69em83/sakomexileropur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613402db1f34d---26926360648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370061eaaaa---fegudafitogire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yodishit.com/uploads/userfiles/file/19177183882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pattarasawat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sigepokiwufexoruforoburas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7226ca5b1---delapadafurefuvalebamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhtindesign.vn/uploads/image/files/sijukujebanapukudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54842412395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancunday.com/travela/img/files/dasurukasakipevalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yetisirkaucuk.com/firma/files/34724482760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/8565914335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/nebor.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_off0000beb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEB0 16776 bytes
SHA-256: e4357f6fe5bca8fad899a75180e579cc8353482c4f3edf83bed6790a168256ae
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AE 10596 bytes
SHA-256: c58a6d608bac3846c759eb4b1d1e45e1f190328dea6056ea04533e24e6846332
font_02_sfnt_off000100fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1