Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 789a8ea846299e54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:43:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8f12c4a120528caf42344b8b658b9491 SHA-1: 87523ca5d98fe5956df7b86ae4c79cc1f5dd653f SHA-256: 789a8ea846299e542a2606c4854aae35b03a1926647ec8bf4f6abaea09f37432
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, forming a link farm. These links likely serve to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection, redirecting users to phishing pages or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=squamous+cell+carcinoma+of+ovary PDF link annotation
    • http://saens-jpn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67157356803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27bbf1689332fa519dc8673ae287766/kegezupolupakaxugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/35088971372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhaphangmy.us/upload/files/85911222236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jukssmgm2775qdurdcco7ruub4/vilapujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7002b99e7bc59e8fc3f05532ccd6acb4/39291447182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/paripojinivodobupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b812e0202---10317043398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlqooba0clm3ifc99tg04b5j40/lozagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff2d85b65d795f2159007be90b4fa2af/77466056295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbaecf2c543---66792395689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa355ee0f6---86152719108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f683a4a00ae1f1c2b982b31f2e94a74d/88891602686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1689b0edaa---95103376413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/19736256207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbde63a639b---95730361993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/570906d954d1e82eec17477a730ee21d/89019364333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/facb14cb9a53b9023aa2fdd680c90f70/94145606148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df10757fcf0---49337484173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21uhdakuk1g9hl99361gpcka80/19307899873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/61367546122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c261ece26---15709962151.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_off0000f9d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D7 17520 bytes
SHA-256: ab29a1e1866f083110655601b0080005fb942c2711724549e69d3e677058e821
font_01_sfnt_off000127f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F0 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 5b63f01400d7702eea62e9299c193756873d598b81753fd75ff7145a452ca3a8
font_02_sfnt_off0001412b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1412B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1