Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b90476366be0d8a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-08-29 18:20:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c5c848bc3d28966a0c5b455cb312dfe9 SHA-1: d64e656e38ffb009bac885b1e72633b35c847c56 SHA-256: b90476366be0d8a95c911086154205f081566dfab9cf1a95e800210689aa371c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be metadata from the wkhtmltopdf tool rather than user-readable content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b5a5bfaaba99fd8f85ffa9a0dae69db/popupedubedo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/16803114102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/78674420967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tngq38q0pfqvkrgoc9phaq5d22/20746618502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e6fd20446---wonudovulewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48fafe3594ce3e56b18c072746ec648e/zitegulit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/67629167892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astmasme.com/userData/board/file/ganegono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e106ae142---38515510757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fce921e0331f2dee2b24737f4ab7c22/wanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99f120ca9e---34384798326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/wason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30471859841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e28d96a9859660aa217b7781370932a/60580129530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walthamclassof1985.com/clients/5/52/52060312c10aa816a718e90a19a6a7a1/File/wokabezoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puteralojoxujaxoxobofizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1hbl09764u7sd1fqltib09d4l/zemos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/zizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aa22903f29b3ed490040ec09b97188e/55568950231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/jamozepoxuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvitraders.com/files/55078928606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3269bdebef---netubaduwugovemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ff1bef195e40dc80dbaf218e74a3cda/zipotex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofulltravel.com/userfiles/files/32713117452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialsipahi.in/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/33009262754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=a+kept+woman+meaningPDF 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_off0000e994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE994 18440 bytes
SHA-256: 7dfaa313fef9c7edfb009d46452a6e86355c35b62be48f492fe3b556df479d74
font_01_sfnt_off000118e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E0 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 7c4aa38b65a8c24bd82d62a773644c68929c3c156da960b0bca24ae374a02b76
font_02_sfnt_off0001309f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1309F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1