Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e90e33a2d317534c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 20:01:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9fa20a0682a432ae9d248106911d2faf SHA-1: ea8b765d2eb7fc1d86c1c495546fb76ead0db159 SHA-256: e90e33a2d317534c4da5c095ca38b9eb1a648586f9cb46fcafc34cf4551ae142
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or appear to be part of a link farm. Heuristics indicate these links are designed to lead users to compromised upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://k-ookuma.com/js/upload/files/8272755033.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://noavarservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/weruvepugumozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/bagenusexenukokutupota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/xajerodixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/58362337725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a76ef616e9---mipaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f954a27318---baxebopimasugimuneza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antichigelsi.it/userfiles/files/fiferuwububu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eecdf8b017---texidevexuvivejuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corumosmanlimakina.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70551912771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dspec-car.com/js/upload/files/lezametifumadilerekomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vevo.keresztessyoptika.hu/elemek/file/likusakip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/37256263411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelascanu.it/uploads/file/durukogagowejujuposisam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/jivegazifofurilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae8890abc4---nuper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/64840169148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140afbaa5ed6---kalasukuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=boruto+episodes+onlinePDF 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_off0000b416.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB416 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 0b97c343558565a8f181eecc21a60ac87ccfa31b5baed6b9adb5f1911741ff58
font_01_sfnt_off0000e06d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06D 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 496f8b1665a28d210a3f72e9a5d52853f4ea4e76aa3d2bfb70716bcb6081e7a7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1