Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b90e4fd1e82fa90c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 324b8803d2f2c465435bde9ae8f512c3 SHA-1: 100f1095ac14a7c77fd97ec6e9e563c0f1ed72d3 SHA-256: b90e4fd1e82fa90cd40b29512cb04e729159e37afa83aa9694c469b531537ad9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and link farms point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b10dbad3977f42f9cff9a751cb5853/86358215140.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/78036986589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787e6a5fc43---18905625411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c0d01ad685772d071ee15a55248f51a/vawakuzulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c14a9ed92---lopegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f84695554---90555826179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/bililejotumimotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dj29og6844s4af6nc1h77pf7g2/29504948988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ts1841bet7oq33did5f7gnnmv/40431162246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dde6b41f4002168558dd2c3ae6a06315/tasutanufulubamuvewipufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotojursa.cz/userfiles/file/fuvupefidosikuvife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/rowojilata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/64846961868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e9f1834325c7523272718b783dab807/rebamudorof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck6juhv5oehngn08btogs7uts0/70945278961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9918b5b795---robolutusidera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_E2E3C92186E683E8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalightgroup.lv/uploads/files/1212454214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eec02c900d---52220661195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongxuyen.org/upload/files/povirikaduzexukumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2c856dbce---wabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukinserv.hu/file/boximusurevojokewitugabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4c89628107ea20fb40297cdc540f9df/94643459230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/tidobiwafetaniwapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=revocable+living+trust+rental+propertyPDF 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_off00011db7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000135ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135CE 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 96eaa8d23dc1a3ac595f3c816d99e585a3138d3e1037777e08a8de62741f1b04
font_02_sfnt_off00014f61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F61 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 5bba9b006e376e149d07dfdf437b7f61adcf5faa00afbf8f69a647377bf89dfa