Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 898be4c57c801d25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:04:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 774f1d3938f8acf3b78b8e40332d821d SHA-1: fa63e9d1ce1c99ea444114e6380b01a16731f828 SHA-256: 898be4c57c801d2576e3d49be4adbc7a466f97bcee4b377f45817dea505c539d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to exploiting users who click on these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://energooptima.hu/upload/File/74176640497.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdd035bd1ed---11172457341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhomkinhtoanthang.com/media/file/34693326153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb98e3849a---mavuvonapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc1dd026864f538e4086bc308f0fda1/fipimebinenexikad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/32627930347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8513858ba456d57c4e9b60c359f2640/27916976430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1e00ff35lcbf1kkn1q44g649s/zudoxeraxuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074542a758e9---52373239168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aed503f2ef55e6f9281eab213c724d4/67775802140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3ec223680---58446655733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23760273014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/poduxagodalawugidizowovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/warapevokubogawozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/903310c176cec1711982de178c2519d0/wakavimenijunulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/fisigugizexikowimekizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/buxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5620bd1ee7---larufanupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/he68dd79spsolfedhlsl54e0i3/74107527190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a41ce260bbad7ce5c3c19bb7597699a0/25524431947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4ee540a1e7---88997258654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b95742c960f---rawizikokapotagilekinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac90fc1fea---vaxifuxumujitivubiwaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c7f65ef3bb3753b78e1819a10e0217/likizelidamedibekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84223fac8cbd2ab9762ad04941c317ce/49965477379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=where+does+the+process+of+glycolysis+take+placePDF 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_off00010553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10553 16676 bytes
SHA-256: 76205bd807274dcb19d1f9f8dc7ce89a5c75021116d60c5aecf66a35c4c9ccea
font_01_sfnt_off0001307b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1307B 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 0747eaa5baaa52bf7c8665589cf713e1dddc451ccfe882acb6eb5e85402e0a42
font_02_sfnt_off00014a07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1