Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89a137098f046de6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-07-22 00:26:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f8325584d6a7d24d95afeb59e0423551 SHA-1: f0a8ce75df75231ee66d0af7c1d820955c65b0fd SHA-256: 89a137098f046de649a8fb6b2e76c6375002b1953e183982acbbaf10b2e8c0f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that has been flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with multiple embedded URIs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to redirect users to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/384ord4hirkrpea9hscf68900b/37139727038.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/dodejanonimegewotufabapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/10058426985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e37a9eaf3---vilopetenose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/68880236787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bbb328954---40540365478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/50867274398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082299580739---20890538059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/338860bdd91d3a4c4b989ef4f0db004f/80726688733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608468aee735e---tagegodotovuvidapajugowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.climatisur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jalakini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afe92538bede6e18f53195fe6e13e40c/fitujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aftssp8fvui0mdseg6kvv2i4p/vusimutilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevirogive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/52865552746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/48078048638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099aa73f1100---78200810603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be46e2b093e---33572712127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/kavoroxovoxosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u82i24sen0a1agn6gempto5sjr/sarabowowoxosawosoraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/todewubinomiwapufadixago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/16504183670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/wovukaxuxowenibawuvemuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/xosodomolojewarelipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=numbering+in+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_off0000c5b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC8 15736 bytes
SHA-256: c7ef302f5297f73734914ea1200b8dac24fb98359a74e263c3a456a57294bacb
font_02_sfnt_off00010653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10653 10464 bytes
SHA-256: fbed628ce29e2ddc559ed5f948f56046d5406662b75652da35536ebc75aa19c6