Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a90f357011f73a63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-08-27 11:26:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0e5202d2b1e965ba83a720ea0aa65fc5 SHA-1: ddd542590c13d2e9ac0cc3593c3db8b70779d50a SHA-256: a90f357011f73a634fea66ca1722466a3bd2235e6557e72d6324aa86cf6b1e66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure as a link farm on potentially disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+book+of+nature+class+7+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mirevedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609844021584d---gurujobudopivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ecc844e78---xupedifitofuralejovebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/9352553805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e308d912a---33126843218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeb1c83a0613a0bcbe36b656286c12b7/29108558923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e5433d23af13418ce8860476035f086/vuzeguxenivepakekoxusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611101eee3223---61171654823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/8827658565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synthecinter.com/userfiles/files/japatitavijinetezibebepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpharma.in/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29438094200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--j1aii.su/userfiles/file/78333956546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71f86cd35f---mekonevovajeraxudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/wokawimepepege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearmanhsreunion.org/clients/e/e1/e1754705b4c076d7cd520c5e9e79ed07/File/33798899204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/76819209983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.propper-droppers.nl/files/file/33567159673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/puj3jrp5jum8nig75b28jpv29s/kitexijepotijidujamozibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g7bkopvefstfciijt7f8oq9f1/52750636197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/gagabinonolifamapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/92120693632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdff705afecc3251d62252589a464a86/tivasanefugunebiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45457140477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/46705547546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/davaxogasudewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ja5n9ebmgbb4gu08f10caj72/sotun.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_off0000e5b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B1 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 9f48745cc8c5c2d1bc90cd83c4501091fe8fc41bfc4ac208e684d9081bf7399f
font_01_sfnt_off00011177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11177 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 659893f1d167350934a6cf48189f97f4d6f098c686db04100fd2d7138ff16cf8
font_02_sfnt_off00012abf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ABF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1