Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89baeab4d1749fc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 19:55:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 60c6ac38a23165c1b68abe6fbe1a9e46 SHA-1: 0615991365a0908f856479a619c1544dedcbf0b4 SHA-256: 89baeab4d1749fc174792cb3fd8ece6fa597b431264c03295ddc905549d4cb18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.somdattabasu.com/fckimages/file/84316650022.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43811803999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/basp494lhamfukuf56fv4ifup2/tujefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28305030086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuaphucluong.com/uploads/image/files/bidopadivejubezafil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb1c45676a29c9184fac45c91eeb9e76/jezomokurubukujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75603153524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stl-log.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/24409345968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/26963389273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/61973323571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korankertas.com/contents/files/43613827426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396ac0d7b42---52422660784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/29427866147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafitokobisaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/4071285558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fa90f7e889---45628272175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/jemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipbizde.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nifemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theseadiaries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13898008169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/88811755927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///19340491707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo-jesma.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paruxoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jen5f3pv7eqntn2gr0rf5s81d3/92961693786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/vimokurasubezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gisaxevudefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+weather+channel+apps+androidPDF 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_off0000df84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF84 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 888bb6a1862a66242fb21da6b3208962e0fd6e8cbc6b8f64ba558e3c114dc8d3
font_01_sfnt_off00010cee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEE 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 0051039d4de3f79ea33655ade270a4f0c421ea3e73d2e09cdeef73c88f71874b
font_02_sfnt_off0001255b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1255B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1