Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 189132939d52e5d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

231.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 12:43:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0de7ccd75e511399f59992a82e7d3f43 SHA-1: df4f8c69311baf1ad7f5be56cf292848fd7b770a SHA-256: 189132939d52e5d2ab20e6f0de9e28e60a08e838d0f8e18d8c691b4b5081e93c
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. The heuristics reveal it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure for free downloads. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, potentially leading to further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9728

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
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=candle+light+scripture PDF link annotation
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/4971142696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11d0c2101d---kulawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/837feb5626b12addf8c3fe47f7149961/89268805118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/90602601851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/japirekivupugabika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49ca40cdc6---24789269607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a137bb41d0b79a842831426be511434/73329817733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/ledugaxalirala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rnal52gver4j3s26ej3eegg05/93590390105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/38647591643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2ad031fa1---31413226444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikplbpp02knsqei8dq32torfbf/57271707382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/tuwedomevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41a80b623c---85438406413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12106a7ea295092783ac8c87c1ad5181/41839687887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/92938096678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/22026487242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24f53ab4d022924ec1a4451e3d4250aa/vinusivedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b232586d7e618c6dce017f5918ed63b2/38741339805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a879b91bd---mazokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/581ddedb5f8aec995582fef2eb8de821/xafawubobujovozidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiyoaquris.cn/upload/userfiles/files/20210613061513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/187t85mp12e5e1hqgasceosqp4/98395325342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/74249171356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/fiwipezodujamul.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0003017d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3017D 32160 bytes
SHA-256: 84d302e6ea7d438392bc22a58b71ec8189d93d47d67f0c3de6251a9009e436fa
font_01_sfnt_off000345e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x345E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00035dfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x35DFD 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 0532a0d0d0b91ad451f9fe9c4f6722813dab14b2006d166eefd0f451d1826ce0
font_03_sfnt_off00037697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x37697 16768 bytes
SHA-256: 8551788aa41ba29af9be47cd815ed434bed60d1c321ecf49b4f6ee0765bd8649