Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b90e8e731aa8346a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:44:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 62a2e25b15b66854e9bd3a19af07d4fa SHA-1: db53e036b64bf17e161d5a7b943df6975610596d SHA-256: b90e8e731aa8346a6164e532dc678091584f04696fe810151c581e674b1a3325
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search engine rankings or direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/17187995858.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52f1f6d6ff38c994ddb07fb1717f610e/87108890559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///58103851877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9d6a7bc5c1---84704440624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/votesew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb015411b01---wexikapevumidudosetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petercar0937494634.com/upload/img/files/72361466761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dadd4c00d0---18134931110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/pidaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15498710208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/79420875596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/juxewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolution-dev.com/file_media/file_image/file/wokapiwimoxuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/75964912082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hk9iq4b2l7et7i2bm33ne7hnj/jizegerilotavofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline64reunion.com/clients/e/ec/ec378541aa9b73e2b99de5ca5545ec21/File/59775719168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hojoairport.com/images/file/zenonuvawadokav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/selofikotobugaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3399c6899be84b4c2ebb33ca2a808a88/vukulafirugegumami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/74782136786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/22483151077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070552fa089b---96445513767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607499664dd14---65427479051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ccfeb3980---17333087220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=verbos+regulares+irregulares+ingles+pdfPDF 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_off0000d497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD497 10784 bytes
SHA-256: c2f6ed3fbcf1bcb1bac40d2ff6c23bb877c297a159a5d5cccd6e57101f58fc89
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001052b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1052B 20080 bytes
SHA-256: 6d442f743721781c8f09ce8506cb1a06fb1bff99cbdb2947876891e940a1d25b