Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f290c8b075addb63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:35:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2ba4808394d32768c2e5686170218a78 SHA-1: 57e7e7ae2dec84f43fec4b014f73f608f77b834f SHA-256: f290c8b075addb635b756962b752ee6f6141acac31e60854daa4932111f22ec6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link farm structure is a clear indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://yorktownhs1987.com/clients/57482/File/82451220547.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/xejewopoduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d268d175430b56ce48a3607b45296199/33743727241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4sdndbm324taik2ne12qbefmm0/15594208587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ucvbkeussh2fsr9scnr32tmld/wumexojikajupumujoxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/78626431837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd71ac7c45---bilovunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d85141416c0203780adab2e20a8d7ec8/69063244434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconburyreunion.com/clients/36523/File/42016306340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c188036367---15381800682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sa7e6f4boiuhb6gu7u9aq6gsqu/lafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090800b9e200---pelasegoroxobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/wasejumofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90dd923c9cdd2bc6e011aa21e9d62b72/joxuvogebugifuwifeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d743e1380---xowosibujokulutatezorigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9e0735d22---tisisalejopurijosepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607955514e417---29017663254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c72aba192---fizagagakawexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dca1890552---12124369038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be76c11b737---zurinotanexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/zuferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5638dd3c13910905ccba36846ab25008/zavusitilazat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/rifomotonabugadagovari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e9b9bc84c---wefisabezaxebipopit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desushibar.com/userfiles/file/19335239791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=when+does+meiosis+and+mitosis+occurPDF 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_off0000f2b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B6 10684 bytes
SHA-256: f84c4bada5dae0509a317fd0296fb2b62e6c5aab44f5db198b0589072f3869cb
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0C 16124 bytes
SHA-256: 5a4dd3e30af9fa133678bdbfe3449d6983696c5e8d21ff05b38c753587675df8
font_02_sfnt_off000134bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1