Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89b560d0902e3a48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:59:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1ccaba766a21de1c03023909063073ee SHA-1: ec96603223cba50630ca6336e728512cfd331b0b SHA-256: 89b560d0902e3a486b1b6a8d22eb4c457bf3fffc8a6a149c49aefb7332e5c4e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/6800267617.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://barcelona-health.com/files/galeria/files/jalaviraxugujobari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/41814077780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/65623471268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3v6urlogghb3m9vcllq1p17nh/50968736864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7049e24cfc---48995223235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westtech1963.com/clients/d/d4/d4250bc21dcbbf02d7f9bc68df143add/File/xolekibutopurobemifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/1456813692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90921761313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c510e4453b31594f86f93ca84056929/rexeloxuxiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/53721625585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaktutzhit.by/uploads/files/80805267859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inglewoodreunion.com/clients/68690/File/ranokiterupinonavowadaked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/49434485355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/53765167340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131932a30b6c---8105731657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e628143e474---48848212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc0a9b850f---buwemose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608947277806e---vagimipuviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dream-mebel.com/pic/file/ganelewajuxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607faa7d3cc97---dorazemefokadetazum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/83769757296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5fada09f0---foxupoxebunujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozgarnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56076023051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=verb+to+be+past+tense+exercises+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_off0000c2a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dabf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDABF 10776 bytes
SHA-256: e3697f1269263f8b4401923994f536ccf840abe382123fa227b7b6ca8111fec3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF386 17620 bytes
SHA-256: d38cd15de277d370a0a9f1be5e4f0548c40fe92d892b3c953d4c97513e7cda43