Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89423ab74aba78b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:53:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8aa1a2b334bd7618e9ff196a87cd1a6f SHA-1: 7ce3820705022f63e8cac4aaa04c737709fce216 SHA-256: 89423ab74aba78b95597ce90006ec82bd2461a73bbb666ec112f119f2dd133e6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. Several heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://arserwood.com/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php/upfiles/file/210502193843900807pms94r.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609208e472c85---40385802044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novo-foto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4765091990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity68.com/clients/e/ea/ea220da86df44fb0ae3b7c8e8295ccc1/File/vetuwemoxetixewupuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/66978655730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taxivanclass.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/83619589050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc76964421a---wefoxaxobive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc657279aa9---61884506626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02702509e36cdfe07339e6f89b577d2d/59109650236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1305cfe2fba04881f04656fc4e746a2/vijajisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99435ec78c0b9131c2851460e3228f6b/kawedifobogizeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26918405664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/47902171457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/14125801388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/rijazirizoxenujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a3b51b0a1---savupowajowexomopidutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ab15e82845742d8ea8a1ac89e274a0e/vevuverewidulikefugoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77d512e03be9b088206e83f8a8b41e23/titos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normandyclassof79stl.com/clients/e/e1/e16d7b8530e96d8d426d6b963c92b0b5/File/kalunabeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b9c63e4edd4581955c291b7597e5fc/23917509030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=sesamath+mp+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_off0000d5bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5BC 19036 bytes
SHA-256: edc75db508ee4eaa52a623328e6d81194ef421891d7b1918ccd4db8421542b72
font_01_sfnt_off0001076c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076C 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 604c287b2b05839475fe37c1e12d95e82c6a2a8d8874df533018a01c35443a69
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1