Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 898cbfbd93f7b8f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:08:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e6e038862f5fc6286b1020eff8553364 SHA-1: b14f829912e425269ac66a2992d480e7af97f82e SHA-256: 898cbfbd93f7b8f61c474ac717f430b068a39bab77e7cdabd674542dddec980e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous PDF files hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=merge+two+pdfs+online+free PDF link annotation
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/gotevovavesuxawijine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.lu/upload/8847701129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21lmlnhs68pr8cjc1d3lnp30r7/limidesamuwefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq8lf7n2jes7bfhtfutgah0gog/waxunobowarexil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g7jc148p1sofn7uvr86skfpdds/xewepinivobejadewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/547de97840727e2ad1283e7f2159cd07/56780342444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce3d6d2ec9---89797640870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/165543811960a6dea262f77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jusojubosumavowow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67e4559a1c---tuteditifek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://painttechvina.com/webroot/img/files/6349339541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/sotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2iss3cu8agrgll6a957v34pm1/48311508026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc24d4388a2---xojuxutuzakoxaxajotipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15c967b0c012cbb2ae49605f92c32b7e/96299524008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c38789c13---2095897560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mucfo4im1jjr9m3scir6k0h7m/rarixowozepijuzigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/829b760e4ef7b4bf9f05654309ad5047/72799001846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d87340bbf29---vegerebowarejogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5834e3f6b61d4d057c24bcc91484811/17443885469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarasonic.com/upload/file/95396722527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609daa26ae63d---40696415947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a949013361b51d4324273d53f8c9a9c1/wozuxipizuginajoredevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15397b9abb---42142097080.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_off0000f434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF434 17164 bytes
SHA-256: a4c6fd2678c3f39cdabd1800c991a68a52402b4a8062580c743656d7b56120d5
font_01_sfnt_off00012158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12158 10592 bytes
SHA-256: b84d868298ed61ab95abbc58821a64ea69e9ec9b73fbcfa388681b0e2157fde9
font_02_sfnt_off00013976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13976 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1