Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89041be309711287…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:20:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 88cd6a814e7970815f082ad7a9144fcc SHA-1: c5c9477c6d6f1990fe1a0cc0932e5c1e46dddf32 SHA-256: 89041be3097112872ad3a9e1d11af29880cd39725cbab9e6b7d29d5b6dd09699
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious content, possibly phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c429adbaa42---bumorigigedower.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3f5829b20d003e805e1168ad75fe88c/zoruladanixebagigodaxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/ralubonigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e0218dd10---60641945779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/20636093774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af752467717---69816065372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80816081717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/72857338510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infypos.com/infyposcms/media/jefiwoxijemupubagusexajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/dovafigilomaxisenaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/79887626957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a63136a5790753f55215000412b4c822/sevulisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aayams.com/userfiles/file/38564493583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/63475173398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/65138263530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf8ae2dccc188b51bdc1f566f900d8dd/jusoxesewenubuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5924c5d798acc96cb1aa095756f4ef2/wuwiwisevapidesevotibagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/80583385600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edubox.mn/uploads/users/0/files/kutogopikapivexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4f912b7bbc---zibowirutuwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc7095ad5d---dawexozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atavio.ru/files/file/legokusijunukuzalaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3713b2e48---sumalobapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primethailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57533975352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=sources+of+finance+pdf+notesPDF 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_off0000ba99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA99 14936 bytes
SHA-256: 0857f788c21da0aec7f1578b53790942f9bdaab741828370e21db2b41397c3e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE070 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF887 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 42cd281aa50f1bcb40ca506c359b4a87ab7fc1019ae4d46110e2fe3990ee587e