Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 898bb1c26c35394e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:33:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 060737d4c20fd4c27a675261695ad979 SHA-1: 1aa62ba6d0b673b067d7ed2dfb9f0323b3adf4fb SHA-256: 898bb1c26c35394ec3b7a7a82ec4e3d21644b3c49acb5e85c3ce8ba174a3904f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aaeb4cdccd---14151933328.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/wulimidoxefoloninozepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b74818cc0fce736d638fa976caf89dd/59292187295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/17506774459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcparts.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipigewuvavuvavuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a2ucg8ie0p33m0kip5fvet735/jomolurusigunipamunute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/14829735546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingcarpetclementines.com/userfiles/files/86569855347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicissiapiemonteisa.it/userfiles/files/58691906352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeloanz.net/images/e/file/xufabazibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abbn9d41ssgj7h005qqgopjvin/wedole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferdavagnar.is/images/fck/file/nebupaloxonagaritamezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcbd0e1e8c9546373354382501d83878/34508067704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/sijowajudewezuzimikikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivora3hh3j6aqu2hmcmvophfb5/vebovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/FCKeditor/file/87663678333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/655e64b65d72ed292ad11bbeb985e14d/nowiwinitalunoluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aab96de02d9b4f49d07478b63d3828e4/simagilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkergeneralcontractors.net/userfiles/file/6498626121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/xujikejek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e91b7b4655ddc6b1ab2febe4248cc2ac/86822886481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3dde9cc4bb---bikitubugaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d522b7feae---tonadegifukapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3d3bdad448---21703529382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/savadadumojokoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0c21a1e27---fosepozexufew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=abraham+maslow+y+su+teoria+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_off0000cef1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEF1 17724 bytes
SHA-256: 98cb4b98580cc77cc2213afadaf93244bfa7bd3801f70cfb792734f40192d232
font_01_sfnt_off0000fba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B7 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 5f35fccfc10f163955dbcb854eccfd65ac49ed7abeff62cdf53501cfb2f85b98