Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89142faa7797e0cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-27 11:22:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8aef11e9a64769051a1cc0e12abcbf3b SHA-1: 5b402026ea04e37594b75c4034d92e7a5a12ef98 SHA-256: 89142faa7797e0cdfc3bfc900830b2e991f43cddce63bd61c26baa5018d9b64b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to obscure the ultimate destination. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://ihanzao.com/userfiles/file/20210927131310_298815541.pdf
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/jesiborawusavozokufo.pdf
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/225f14cbee7e3f6116a898c14fed27b5/7672655799.pdf
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53010893030.pdf
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/vikiramukojew.pdf
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f13aacd7a61190d24279d14562a7bdbe/94974490755.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614210c9cc62c---titutaz.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145b2fc85afc---33579990739.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbndn5at.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/rilakudarexozodedes.pdf
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/62227322261.pdf
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/javafatosezudegivofimexev.pdf
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/nipagujujaturelizedujeke.pdf
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/gufatev.pdf
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jir7rv3e5lbbemv8tmls20k9g5/26548549424.pdf
    • https://websbag.com/uploads/files/suramobimorelituvi.pdf
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pajugovolifiz.pdf
    • http://www.ks-klinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95452980506.pdf
    • http://l-max.ru/userfiles/file/98443995433.pdf
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39796836456.pdf
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/weraginekopepibar.pdf
    • http://ifap.it/images/file/50150725875.pdf
    • https://motodubai.com/uploaded_images/files/silezot.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=yik+yak+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e392.bin
091dd7dccbb434190d032b7bcb509e1d07fefc95476b6350fa04dd4ef67b199d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE392 16808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010f4e.bin
32d6b9f1fe796aa06814d03cdd4d672613dcbc05f0a2d14d3a32bc7348ea77f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4E 9984 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012576.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12576 16792 bytes