Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a89ff826869673c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:38:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a77eaacebbd2cd89f3ccb5d2c9a4e869 SHA-1: 0ba1537a8867c9c68733a421e6ac8ce2c0dabd11 SHA-256: 2a89ff826869673c171a4cfa8a68f5d1f27e572a8023531c731c1e9b46cdbcac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on disposable or compromised infrastructure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of creating numerous links on distinct, often low-reputation hosts. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/72359192505.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kefuzusiwamumimopefoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/55563705150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewidor-gmbh.de/uploads/files/pipokedomarufupasewusene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gufipowiber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d5e1e60b901f00721a9ed9fe281134/71186078825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/salogali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5sh7qthl7qh16p4ehk3mk71ad/13945507698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/zejekega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161406ffeacc7b---wexamosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bxbrdh.marketsearching.com/upload/files/tuvujelakewarelarovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/20542914177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hojoairport.com/images/file/dezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/jajiwiziredopiput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/80644902659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksi-system.pl/editorfiles/file/suladow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shindah.com/images/ckeditor_img/files/zudemeperubilaworugipajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magazinul-de-instalatii-sanitare.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gewifijuwinenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olguanaokulu.com/upload/file/zonuvelapepilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proclima-membranes.ru/userfiles/file/51731478210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/vanutisesozuvojuxifiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uktohabbarijamalta.com/files/file/melopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=app+dream+league+2019PDF 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_off0000d782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD782 17932 bytes
SHA-256: 89517b158fd2d54a230137a8d27160327fbff4148e0021f75dd6669d2def6e71
font_01_sfnt_off0001050e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D25 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 6bfcdd0010b002fbfa602ca8088b296d76ae5944615c94b4d169670e65502d4b