Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a90981d6581d39cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:14:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 91a659c6e00098a4f89de4e81833a7de SHA-1: 20d481cbfe7b247f1ccce7be7ccd43d17651a508 SHA-256: a90981d6581d39cc158e2faa3251aa6055b056dbe82244e6493bd3056c25aafd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics reveal.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://nstyapi.com/resimler/files/wopepewif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fernandopelosini.it/userfiles/files/vigopugowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b785bcb2cb---rixekupapojumuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upnbkk.com/file_media/file_image/file/vaxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elverum-revmatiker.no/images/file/busuzobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents/files/metomovosarijebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/nekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ylwlgwadmin.ylwl.cn/upload/files/73847941441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immsac.pe/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/xonopulonobobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/85878087590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpsgk9tterm72knhv29t6rn7ra/vedumotuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/94612853315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/wuxewove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasson.vip/images/editor/files/wukeroruxaxopavozizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/733304414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commandhousecreations.com/uploads/files/nugaxufuweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solelane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76685706347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telliogluhukuk.com/userfiles/file/44392784503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zunamagazuwagigunojitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/kafulimapabuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoo-n.com/userfiles/file/45045242444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpbc43khgmujgf2ui9polrigfr/posas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/venupojofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193d2beff326f078ee8230c235e1d2df/57604918819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa603b8f339828754fd178de68d611e0/xobamudosulet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelsk-adm.ru/files/uploads/files/83014404024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=probability+class+10+worksheet+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_off0000d34e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD34E 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 6b9d70718cd5d454ec50b219d740451391e070ddfd9eed4b4891f9601bcd39cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9E 18340 bytes
SHA-256: 12f22f0f0a8e98b6af27c8474ec01da3c8224519e9e976160aef46722f71ce55
font_02_sfnt_off00011ce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1