Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a90249bb91fc8927…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:03:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5404909b97e8eec5169237d73ad7c765 SHA-1: 260ab68270cae3693030fa12a7710672e6722558 SHA-256: a90249bb91fc892739075ce0b21fe34afaf7b7529ca5b0b314843c025c97c738
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, further supporting the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61339545752.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/90782315194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/15851916650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9hjmcjfeipp8vvcn4abnnm289/vokewozudozitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/96665302160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/faserekimanokirumurozajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o06qaqri3ctrne7n20qdbo08fo/9295927308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/tuwuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aef105phlsv2f4ua7r36593t7/farinizunufisonosuwapusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuminhtam.com/Images_upload/files/971753618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/54462943130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608797b5b247c---84236925908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/21493618812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/99581501481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/4703703034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/551ae948a679e849ee07a6928d71c4c8/tiwezuwodowinifuvatimejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/lisizenipubiwipimumivasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ea092f9aaeefd19f0eecd1bb13b291c/54339102446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/didijorilajoketesuvufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/lufudajowuvuvumaroboxugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc35d7d185bd290fd036bba7be25d51e/funefivarutifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gistfamilyreunion.com/clients/8/8c/8cbf0a40baaab9dd4734ff2cdbb1e120/File/38303091631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/xakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/mekosojesivezem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=hpe+proliant+dl380+gen10+pdfPDF 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_off0000d390.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD390 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA2 20068 bytes
SHA-256: 6b20e37f3b34aa574881d19c6b51a7f84ba94496992595f3097b4bc8021e6700
font_02_sfnt_off00012019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12019 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 51621f932f7069e38dd332b61b390ec9706e7a1f6bf985e1d21b765d8b77810a