Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 489da689baf3055e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:36:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2b4985c9d55c3e433411c81bb677ca84 SHA-1: 0fe193765f5df561a055a78a653dd7a0017f29fc SHA-256: 489da689baf3055eca89d2c65466a6e08e976ff13639c511cdda2fa031580c2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation tactic to drive traffic to specific content, likely malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9879

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ultimate+car+driving+simulator+hack+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/35597705175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/76115649328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80675062446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.ph/app/webroot/img/files/sugulujumopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/siwesisawuroniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pchome.uzai.ca/upload/files/90031692334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayuntang.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210901192939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/26716806459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed92d158c23ad6ac98fc5e3361cda08/32533544246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giayviettri.com/img-ftec/files/selofidosewuvunurev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympiad-bigben.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19968848834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/82054654571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmcmanager.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutadisijumiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/10584442943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e15a6df9c---kirunonenodeketidasareder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/negeratajameritiwogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/77525458291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82866658135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/fafuguvazefenimoxojor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/userfiles/file/gomisizebomibuwegefete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/balulipukuwumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613059c1c20b5---nanituvigewusone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137195e31a75---81657409504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906183158893075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haitrungkim.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/16160137100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/94075980354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf2978266c---803889159.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_off000111f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F4 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 3ba538f20b0dd192d33dcf2e4835cfaff473babab3bf9d72321259d87c65f97f
font_01_sfnt_off00012bdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BDC 17516 bytes
SHA-256: c3d800493d69e0ccdd60f0807f6cfe2fe94662d85e40dd6fe8e80284df788620
font_02_sfnt_off0001597d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1597D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1