Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f90903232cbf65e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 21:17:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8b94a40646e7588f6b0f36d8b602644e SHA-1: 1c86dc0b861fc996ae8dcb5b197242e273899a55 SHA-256: f90903232cbf65e0f1bb92df8e1bb5dae29199511166020a3ad6812321b5a999
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing scam, prompting users to call a number for issues like billing or security. It also functions as a link farm, hosting numerous PDF files on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely to distribute further malicious content or host phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g06b5kfqq8qr9qi54d04ld1d5/75390719234.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210919182228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17033089099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141cf8c4ff3e---rizubedevusexese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ce8bcb7d88ad4367b09c8f7be20ab9/69564869979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etoprosto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pemajeriwajuzitapumuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protezas.lt/i/File/vurelolutasawewuburin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/worixikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18147881968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e115ff088c2ee37d5a258712353c93d/gabemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/43562803226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/file/golitipatozugonupuxane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/66392996101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5461a8d961259b691ede87b35d648f6d/nutagilozavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/24140996644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jechrina.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/toneto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/relusog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/teropubajinawegiruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/48353484991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/68295612863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantologie-deva.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/duzegebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/63005849337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f9b8496c8dcdecd5ba2b5f273cb222f/winibonavipox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+rising+ruby+downloadPDF 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_off0000df83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF83 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 1bb3032a67ffa06c16dcd1046751cc95baf82a654e91af6f9b068217c2ec99bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8FB 18892 bytes
SHA-256: e784df011e8063b081036b036ea80df35e4bcb609c8f5fee45f26430082b048a
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1