Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b90e36994e73d2c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:31:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3cf8633ef801901f6339ab5e08c99e5f SHA-1: 317b599d7667d7765d30b76b31aa2f31cb61b36f SHA-256: b90e36994e73d2c63465091a5b5572ce59ce9b693499f085ee2f27f109d09387
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is designed to lure users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ariconium.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98244172654.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gonzagafood.com/userfiles/files/82535552417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b95c4e8d68c1e76d229234e0ccf1d12/70872724174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangtatmj.com/userfiles/12302409758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109d01275fea---55811993784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/nevelafofedipuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdig0rb8bnpr1nlbl32j720sjr/daxufepewekajunozate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yt333.com/userfiles/20210728/file/1627419331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/5421641903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s011qkrt3dsfjk42hv8ujsgtsn/46348515977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210529_095412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/17576529718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwan-tiaya.com/upload/tiaya_official/files/goduzenotewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c922a03fa19---10760596013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d54dcd8eaf---28560093371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fta45117bv0i08de3ljkeidcdu/zezimebonexomivijeviris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/6210150043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6af4d4f242---voliwugadomoresos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/vaxusorafozuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/fovabixonegufudopajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografieindex.nl/images/uploads/zerob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/96783870436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xegakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/FCKeditor/file/21438702589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runningrhinelanderrabbitry.com/clients/875187/File/59263963426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=chest+pain+and+tirednessPDF 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_off0000cd37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD37 16672 bytes
SHA-256: db9e560ffa4bd54d0e2123b94a208a081acbcfad3e610790db03b2b21a6eae20
font_01_sfnt_off0000f870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF870 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 4010d4efa378f6041df21272f7a15e011b6eda12b8e17e0f10af4c87aac16b13
font_02_sfnt_off00010fcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FCD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1