Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0990a74cc852b60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 55b8419493d5bec063d19412b534d368 SHA-1: de4aca05f393be5313f132c347ea6d4a913e2dc4 SHA-256: b0990a74cc852b6048170dab7227d209ca4e8828729e2feb1260023a57f62583
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple links and the nature of the hosting suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=agilent+multimeter+3458a+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/wasejumofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giprozdraw.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogidowedolujupixibujetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polkovnik.su/upload/file/fikakabujama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d728cd6c032868357afcd8becc19e5a/12990309967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.seja.lv/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/88017152878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fec3e578fff9047fbc6ef17d5c7f7a2/37116338813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1143915990120e8d264db4cba3650c4/32654184467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/tinixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19070952500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c23cc935e5---sokonumugadan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b837a8dd9228cc29b2ef724bdc1c2c1/mojaguliwogedaxefumivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/pamadatuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97f5d040a0193b9afd6a3a0e7d898929/bivovamizaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c6538209cab0e33f016ced8c363fcfb/nizozosufomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/54160757326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bc7032958---73663208723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-vrignaud.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59761783178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc1781eab6---68691908167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cddfbbbdc8---66598275092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/gogotapevatifisakujoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb8c4df227---sipivujuwosudetorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b606dda0252dff96b503bfba30e9d70a/88766677702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/xabixeweno.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b789.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB789 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFA0 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 2c773ab4b7fcb2a0fa5dc2c2be1c4162b0654f9c414008f9e40033eadcf5c0e9
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AC 20580 bytes
SHA-256: 2be07a7bca038740b5da80453d41c386fb4e87e7ef8f6511eea92228304da2b6
font_03_sfnt_off00011c69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C69 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 64af0185a2beffa7382febdf957b2ddd2015d3985e5bc97cf8ad64f3c2914973