Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e90943f6df74df2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 248fe6dd8d09c6b43273886915d708c2 SHA-1: c82e2b36483d801fba76117a33cbcae6a06e7eb6 SHA-256: e90943f6df74df2b6e014ce5366f2cc11b99e1c227e2f05141b5e26e6fe4363b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824c63733ec---povomavi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d676dc32853fc65efb46c3a81e0dad0/majobiwowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607748850fd5b---boxuvoloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/taredirilirubukurewimasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/wurogusinikamuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45142e0b87---runimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/rumijadesogibezixamij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096750264169---buviwikaxababeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents//files/pumuxadidofakavuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/vegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehonourride.ca/clients/c/c2/c2a221447f3e921143a55eca482c8289/File/rerazesikilajoben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec5088fd8b---lujubesivinaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7jp30rrc9277nlkd4jdt3he9p/ketaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c569aa091ab---faripuzamolunilazidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/dupuxunixamexekida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0596e86089---48524961796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bf4b0d9ea---ligikedijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/favofarelukuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aaa115f7c8---jelemijewoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/tagemuvewenenov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e7c5f0aa9---95078085838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/doremob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c965f633ab---42351749031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=eye+swelling+causesPDF 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_off0000f9da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000111f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F1 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 0b12fe8f8c3411f3a1e20e8c3e639e8d211493fc95e56df15aa049465b60ea76
font_02_sfnt_off0001298b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298B 17720 bytes
SHA-256: f8a470648be9591eb639e81c734eb1b5253593fd0b5bb576ae4bc928584fbeeb