Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89980569741a9678…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 12:50:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3e463d03a772f4931dc8c8949832bdf3 SHA-1: 43f1da1bfc19fdc299b218392c8bf994b6b633ff SHA-256: 89980569741a967870d4f78a502f83a7195a1216605b15e3e8ce6b289abb9508
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites that appear to be part of a link farm. Several of these links lead to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a potential attempt to distribute malicious content or host phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://sadex.pl/fck/file/losowojataxem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/mapawaxilufulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/12064068084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagakusenigulupivomuvewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://collinite.pl/userfiles/file/58051957268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwancy.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/52501373126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/tijarokamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365ce822de6---21773198094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/81787375520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.propper-droppers.nl/files/file/90403417980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/xemabuwuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.group/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///jiwizejofolusoviregijigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frutalmente.pt/site/upload/file/87637705190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/58003971786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/10405301781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_700228CF5BF3A639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/16376716877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/tinepumokajetonikeroxirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202109031426192440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f6e63fadbe8199581ef52d117aa235f/69800868294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/65893017188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/98040675931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ebff905eb0---nasisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icoenergia.com/userfiles/files/62898336074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/73518787835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/40855045964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=instantaneous+rate+of+change+examplesPDF 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_off0000ca71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA71 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 789017364d286df49816fc2c0c023810ac6eaf4a8dad89e133ec21d504f732ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D9 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 7c01e48e82a0eead68b263523afd49143d403a97a16131d13a604639c0537c1a