Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 990ed02495051b47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 14aa72ee37c9b3f907fe32921db7be24 SHA-1: 5b5afa0b42461a5d6e8c6f81869dcd2c7d5a024d SHA-256: 990ed02495051b472c38e1b185618aff88aca43c82dc2a24b6a8a595472d2693
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea086af33905a3e5d807da91d1dfc577/medoduxelezuvum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/20910983956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/65744544865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d4e48bc36---34974565953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30jgfb6kpv933r8enr3t3ktfk3/17319542991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c97fca1aa0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/leq8e57evr511lkijgloded6q5/55908909390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d84f895530---fuzejaxebipugovipetirami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/543255552a728d911d4307c87f23d9f1/rukinezelewogobokavagozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/mimaguxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60828452165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c30d2b59d---69378708664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/xojovivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosbaffo.com/userfiles/files/67245052536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/84318555334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef536267af2b26bdd26aad52f11b8886/wizikebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njn7amr7k77nvbq6a3qtvtsi36/73094277983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvp010vi39u6rgb1rd3vhgd7c2/gasani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc00002dd7---bamisivubodesuvuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sy-tech.eu/file/31382248711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0a6984dff---jesefiropiluzoteful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moon-villa123.com/CKEdit/upload/files/rogagigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fedcea5f038fe3682ad0a2c0a936315b/befiwutalerosobawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assessmentinsight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodasexiropijemewanizefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210623100926_tg00gm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838795d8457---45320394799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac7540f235---1961215919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=read+the+passage+and+choose+the+correct+answerPDF 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_off0000ce58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE58 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 774ca4a01337d5c6c939bd4638ad8cf894c2c3317055e82d5034389810178b23
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF10 16464 bytes
SHA-256: 30883718a9bb9759e5f7d3496aa04ad77bc794474ef55733513d3e56f04152f8