Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89aa4529e3c58ce8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 14:53:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 74c60d8f762d3da1d9c2b70c8c13ca29 SHA-1: 8cf799461aa7abc98c84f00176af83164ce0e4a4 SHA-256: 89aa4529e3c58ce8a8d524941b22be2444a3cb6ad53ec7fe39e6b0078af56230
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210531194417_mfsyjn.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/21702255238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755aa306926---91541364794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3330512eb---88686753102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/wuturuforadazetejaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classiccar-jp.com/js/upload/files/73826767296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c205fabe5a86b14c1848bfd21237ac6/tunuzabevuzojurifobojobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073194429cb4---duxabakepisodebefadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b76f3408a---xabebafukolivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5e40bc581---xeluredop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hihhs1gsuaev475t70s3sh0di6/jozuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qalf2pr1dr9o7kiep3lt8ht6m0/gidadegaxixoninobadikak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/sepemodixifixizevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51760845000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ad02375e623f43b548fad7eee40c63d/32114255840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721d7901dd1---nutezemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/9034865598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/76656181386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607426181da88---73656708718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/209eb365d2213d84b97d8969c432247a/besusobozebekeber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b607377629---47881697151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210606024502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e1147852a859d2621e0ad66cc48ebc6/70440504810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eb76620b66df9b0ad1232dde58ab5e2/75064426979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a89b907db1483c8900ffb160c0dc479/jovazilemijiwesakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=should+you+lift+before+or+after+cardioPDF 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_off0000fc06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC06 16668 bytes
SHA-256: 945bb09485c7164b344dbc219cd8c728e28a71f82cd27fdc33676b41276b3ed0
font_01_sfnt_off00012756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12756 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 12df0f77d4dcd06c9713569f0d39a9195211ca5a064bc11f394cbef654f41559
font_02_sfnt_off0001402b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1402B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1