Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e90c148a00c68ce0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.8 KB Created: 2021-08-04 20:41:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a578df5b11ebd8a175554496674c4816 SHA-1: 2969c761862ee02bf9c6d541b09acaf38f5d08bf SHA-256: e90c148a00c68ce045b361947708429ae273a0a33f2c716ff5537ce868e61578
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to deliver phishing content or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/86944107261.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1460b831e8---73524853145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609617fb9c222---66584198452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ec7d63148---31502769613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdcc66bb936daa5d3f90e858565ea28a/disaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a502e505520---lakojuziwulurusetusuxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610741a5cf471---vuzeribefapaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/gaxodebavakanapanetatisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/kifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1388135239f56f698f02414ffce2842/38237974152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/82444786958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add86258afa---sivukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/20900967051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/51987450896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/vijijoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/upload/file/rakawutekubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/bipukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a373c29da02---48615370126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fff2656a54---93313541341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210706045852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95794368473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/gubevideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608734a086f66---11796205274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdn7a7lprh9sba1l6o46qq57na/sikupokoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=lista+de+cotejo+para+evaluar+participacion+oralPDF 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_off00013267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13267 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014a7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A7E 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 9be56c5622e283033e611c599c66946d74a374a690aae70a580cdc5dba82fa11
font_02_sfnt_off00016353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16353 20312 bytes
SHA-256: aba0a53b10449e04c274528f716a28fbbf9b85363efc1f5da858210ac98cde50