Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89093c39392d5313…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-06 08:10:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7e67ec46d34195df08679400aac86f77 SHA-1: 6af22f198738ec33c6caf04c2e14080d7a0c535c SHA-256: 89093c39392d531370ac4d3c020c2c9900fc9e4e852c5488f0173b4f0b4d4e84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's a phishing lure or a downloader for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://essuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39073046064.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd825a66268a71c882f4e0a76d294dd/35566159284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.org/contents//files/76068182762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adaa7d8099c---kenukudafuloju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c69222826---rovoxuzajiwafukaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/vuputem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/80147783470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c136bc436---kegopexagadovedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/74669998832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c973469d0de---suliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a0d3a913a---81958725066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0d34066e72458e46d17ec7b6d66ff1e/72419176161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/66304516730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0f3cf72fca6ddf927290e70ffaac474/nafenakelula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/63205578778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098430982c47---mexunalamewipuguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210618130108470752acd3loe7ifxg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/texakuximabem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed1337c91835245a78e99390af19d416/7942564534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/45222426004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriamus.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/76080416852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607325a94e932---lixisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oa7cnl9qh1agd7v2h2hgm7fkoe/77820150049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laflammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/15667333743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0436d2f7d---82006157938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/4495124144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+program+ge+cl3+universal+remotePDF 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_off0000fc4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4C 16936 bytes
SHA-256: 5543f4fdc32b7f39cc778a6a6d0f52e5f1287ec5044448be694b7ede3c72d7a0
font_01_sfnt_off00012874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12874 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 797c51c2cceeb8a23dfff3bbc6e4dca8003c4f7ac4601ccc8bcb24ab7eb3c1d1
font_02_sfnt_off00014289.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14289 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1