Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 689c8fa9b150e49a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 04:20:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 806b5059d117eca71b00907e2d15a3e2 SHA-1: 9d0ff4e3ac464714ccce2f2812b9659c4fc7c495 SHA-256: 689c8fa9b150e49acb49d211b83c86e25c3343dd6fc82f52a7c944f96337a280
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve a second-stage payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/62705882465.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082563032583---25921341017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4940a54e4bd7b30028dae854f98ff63f/94535202889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778eed05456---jololagipinumuvule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607759303214f---14091778484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210623_002252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/42373465642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac10f9091d2---60214719431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/784a911751ece7b5db857d99f654b03c/jesagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sy-tech.eu/file/46432685711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/78058874409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaf515f805ecdc684344012a0ea387b0/riveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/18590449422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5r5uoola40tokf61qsoo6q0d6/48601072879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/29485573818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ksmk7ju5hrlog884fie77t4s7/33032242790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomnhenryanderson.com/clients/8/8a/8a1068334c160bb49438aafe8043afff/File/ranejefadukenonagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l77dpmcu367k1brv593dpk7aq8/selosaniwifili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02a6767eebdb4577a7dfc941cf59f4eb/wululaxusozeveveruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbdb95c06e---39641318913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/80472784917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/60103447386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/zerejomaposusoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43cd73e410---13646138771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/166c778d2d4d1760cfb1857537f33d4a/ranitupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.latentoac.com/portal/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qk9mussrbit03s946nq31b9t2l/suvumagutamaferowutadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b7ea5208b---75314164364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=add+new+pages+to+pdfPDF 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_off0000ef93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF93 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 5373e9a2ba0dd74015e6fe7d1af6166a3447b894d70468d8694e3d46569a3607
font_01_sfnt_off00010782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10782 17656 bytes
SHA-256: bf438e967d86a9c7e6e423a5b1f5ec870bcdc689dabaab9c2d545bcdff579d3e
font_02_sfnt_off000135ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1