Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89816e80c5ffd865…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 17:12:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 191ff4c7c3e9869249c3daab7d825fef SHA-1: d74dc25d75c14499921b95a14e1f73e8f1922cbc SHA-256: 89816e80c5ffd86539ded2709c08553d88fe57901ace2f8f9368f14d38ecd2e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to external resources, with a high ML score and ClamAV detection confirming maliciousness. The presence of numerous URLs, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable domains, suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=darril+gibson+security%2B+501+pdf
    • https://mayxaydunghoangphuc.com/userfiles/files/zemibufilunazalax.pdf
    • https://etevent.itweald.com/uploads/files/61384143bf8b0.pdf
    • https://sanagustin.cl/files/56140578646.pdf
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/rigereridezu.pdf
    • https://akconta.com/uploads/files/pabobogu.pdf
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/40147311103.pdf
    • http://galettedesrois.eu/userfiles/file/wokosasubugemotojikane.pdf
    • http://www.prakashirrigation.com/uploads/fck/files/38687671669.pdf
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/74144562737.pdf
    • https://conviviodihera.it/dati/upload/file/xefejosajesisifak.pdf
    • http://artc-polymers.com/upload/images/files/64488395316.pdf
    • http://ortosprendimai.lt/userfiles/file/fidagejoripol.pdf
    • https://smartbrand.ro/mm/file/kewibagoxosunomin.pdf
    • https://clearpatth.com/userfiles/file/86161837442.pdf
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ac9c32781---37774930210.pdf
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/funitexezajodif.pdf
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/83539582268.pdf
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f62a9f38f8b0584e04d09f60d8248493/xosewifoberujilo.pdf
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/gotubixo.pdf
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uljths4pu13gvr9jmr85re35jr/konuledeseziwutilik.pdf
    • http://navrattan.co/userfiles/file/13676074279.pdf
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lidedemunet.pdf
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tatajenawuju.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/43049192754.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b358c6a688---7629063365.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_off0000c24a.bin
be0e1c1dc5e08464e1e15b295dad980ef271d65efefd9134d014ea085ffe7f34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC24A 19900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f593.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF593 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010daa.bin
c95068f0f67592cb2ed5dba4fc95de4a9982b248c7fdd459a3cad5e03a9d3b64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAA 11456 bytes