Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 089fd3a4a97f86a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 13:43:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 53b8f2980dab647cabe45e841325b1d4 SHA-1: 9824b28bca8a8109ea83d47a60712d8251aa4c8a SHA-256: 089fd3a4a97f86a617f81ddf120cbf697c3598e1fd2f2d7bd4a2b59125aab3d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating an attempt to manipulate search engine results or lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=product+manager+skills+for+resume PDF link annotation
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/80472784917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/59308209708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/3836323219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d964310e023b7a16c944a9ad17c0dfe1/tanakokisalowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021051910430927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/tifamumopemutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b731201e884---wakogizifolotelate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hs4am1rgv858m8ha49ghd67o1c/fikulovimipararimadelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/zifawixefadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ed2af394e---78038529522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/41860921105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a13d3dde54f1835437c4cd65470f816/40893237773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/78147498317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/23401656616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff3d87316686e208b3a5414ebc84f39c/62907057931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607764fc016a6---wovukojizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49984ab9bfc7b833fdec22abbd8d32a/79157709989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ll7a8f6ti566f58gti6i2n7s7/tetuguwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/muwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1789763c4e41f4782a70a6c50da107ac/vidilitimiviruxopelifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780ba3b0d8d---wepudimagemume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/744497304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/vawiwima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2tejs2ej3ajp7gglnd9ca8sau/gowajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f87b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87B 11012 bytes
SHA-256: b674e7f415a99bbadcc9620f2eaf608792870cd909ffa844e13a775e7047ec46
font_01_sfnt_off000111e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F2 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 3c6b8d7eddd812c3a7670255c5dd7c81184f692a53dc64f7a612fdd91e700ead