Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89620cc6828e6401…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:02:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 03fa9b076394720bee7da88528ab02ce SHA-1: 20dedc940e2ee16cf6cb54161bf6dec924354789 SHA-256: 89620cc6828e640119dafe23fb138367b1c438bf9e4841d49522567fa7cbc5b8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hypernatremia+and+hypotension
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f56625935---75485293291.pdf
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe41c7ed17---59939506225.pdf
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/21215500609.pdf
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/koralejivato.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b2ff95d19---52115435052.pdf
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/88768214716.pdf
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilv5l7sm838bf1uiqahf6j663k/84820730597.pdf
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfkc31ng510hjl83ut377vgs6r/nebuzanojeregutegel.pdf
    • http://blesk-stroy.ru/userfiles/files/46056764498.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/672159597275379ed88f4d5eedab1d2d/63754282539.pdf
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d99860d4881d158f7724dfb6db09660/73854366969.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce5100f0f7---reruponavevokipanazorusej.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e32977088---lafamuvekisexijilujirovat.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f30ec3788f---jewixijajodok.pdf
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150131_090551.pdf
    • http://boeschfamilytravels.com/clients/43210/File/xipivetog.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add4301315a---jisesawagidoguzosop.pdf
    • https://texigo.tw/upfile/files/2021/06/18/gezax.pdf
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/71158999589.pdf
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/sijutoxudurudaguvowu.pdf
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/67255367836.pdf
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2s8ls4ufcv40v22ko25k2q3lr6/sorisowixudovebimigule.pdf
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cbd1fbd0cad2b888a0e3c3173c667f5/nomavipinojewenetan.pdf
    • 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_off00016c66.bin
7585d16e281838b8e4d58ce2b99e6972658af5212b275b739b6765c18fa02ff2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C66 19200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00019ea7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19EA7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001b6be.bin
c7ee686206e7838838dc0492aef7a30f836246b572474a025af34b3cf3f66036
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B6BE 10716 bytes