Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a90eb71e15ea75aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 16:50:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 91a372b816f986194d51f58ac6d8b1b2 SHA-1: 2044e35be7af2e5dc26cb334aebde0d68733c885 SHA-256: a90eb71e15ea75aac7448f1b0d9771cb5a893922e674c0ef2c748967a4dcc9dd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection further supports a malicious classification. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613502acc0503---tujubelif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://art-wonders.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/95794009521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/kegefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17190702873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/1417149764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/62469071293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdtrend.hu/files/file/23561700954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383a8cd6b13---rorel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cryptoshift.be/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/14025529112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2m3fgsssgl2d1p3mphfm51ujqe/64829304763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnam-pump.com/userfiles/file/bapivasida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/lewegusebisotokatefopeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracetemayonetim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/95772547981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunghoangthanh.com/img_duhoc/files/89817947990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613efd1db8b17---99824584555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413caba57ba---55199795555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/35236141319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eapver.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109170751351284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrichur.com/userfiles/file/bivorexugedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxijinenojale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theponghop.com/upload/files/4373821395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajeer.co/userfiles/file/30396120746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzhangqin.com/uploadfile/files/kewuvun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/77298038132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=gta+san+andreas+file+obb+downloadPDF 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_off0000de2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE2B 10612 bytes
SHA-256: caed5457d5567aaa0368da4aa8525cf0ffa5cf1720b4e972484482934500ff08
font_01_sfnt_off0000f69b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69B 18388 bytes
SHA-256: 9a7913c0ceaa286196687c53eeab969911dc493fa374935a71acbd04f2a0625c
font_02_sfnt_off000125f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1