Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89834bb98ddd682e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:22:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3612772d28f308fb13fd825822202d1b SHA-1: 401cf728a320314e6c6c2deb7c5b9562215d0ec4 SHA-256: 89834bb98ddd682e549f5a669c1968f7e4eea78fbcb55f43432bcc2679b4aab2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=robbery+bob+money+hack PDF link annotation
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/19301994563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.eu/userfiles/file/kumetenizogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamansurkurhuseyin.com/uni/yuklemeler/file/dobifodibikaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f63d226f5---woxedutebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhurwallpaper.com/Files/files/noredabebarul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malmospelmanslag.se/userfiles/file/xalediluzotixofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/27737318348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68289670977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-naslunci.cz/userfiles/file/dekunudewosogururajojeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/32220114290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/xezufimaraled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/nujadipuzimawedafexatilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/10546144359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4339deadf3b5f68359172d5196ac187d/81647786969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/58513374433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chetaomaynganhnhua.com/uploads/files/duwuritalize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/55439773692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/navunumanowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkedua.com/contents/files/nokujudexawisep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/7102928383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprt1day.ru/file/tadofosunazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chroscina.com/userfiles/file/kitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f05a929f1---99301183464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents/files/torufowagusenige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewesternmist.com/userfiles/file/57666083216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pediatricpotentialsnj.com/PP/PPpng/files/30575195435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitoutdoorz.com/file/Jb8ofxiV3AOqXNn8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA4 18012 bytes
SHA-256: d0980398614702dcbcd509bb7d868b53e07b594155ba660482338a9c0890ec5e
font_01_sfnt_off00011d89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D89 10484 bytes
SHA-256: f7505bad692929b98789f297e32b4f66cf06493be3a9ff65b7538f94cf729d96
font_02_sfnt_off0001352d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1352D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1