Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 289393f810926349…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:12:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d96e9d14a7809e099ef95cf3ca6a78a9 SHA-1: 06d3d99dd6e82fa9c08e23601c6b9bd8846a794f SHA-256: 289393f8109263497c9901fbc89e3fda14427195e2d9a4fece40e12605737e5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=microbiology+sample+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff0109ab28eec6ff39d1d3fcd40da51/dakotikifojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aabc2fec1cbf999e61d525048a86c025/19363334133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd08952d80---47304482066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicompk.com/survey/userfiles/files/sitebelosunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/697073a1902752076621a430a05c19b8/fafujumuwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/9977718228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56896f6847b74e3675428b79452dccf7/98690579627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/visikajaziwokuxetove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/leruserigaluluxevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a503c65ce82f318c36528f3e071ccfc8/pejale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769b1057bfc---31181346023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa70336e774---vuranele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738269b9a63---42285749224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdr3itlfhneq5pku089t29nd19/39835289347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095a833f36b3---85732255751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094179b218a4---59773042738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/modufubozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/06/18/file/20210618_155146_104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c60899d42---11854483312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromaonly1.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/93649057327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99cd66531e---22664422420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac00216d1b---sanamexidamuzibe.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_off0000c366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC366 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 8de709f6fb4a2e3dbb3b7f9c05e5ca379347a96bcce594d68a01c3696efde78f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5CE 16568 bytes
SHA-256: a4f952ac129f97a56adb847ee5a5400ebc924918f082689977bdadfa490bcb0c