Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89bc52fe09660451…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:21:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: da438e53da1ebc1a7fd52143f579afad SHA-1: 2ad973bb99e59cb82ff9c9d14a5ac6d8b3e61e92 SHA-256: 89bc52fe096604513c931f1cb32249b885cf82e7f33ff4d47990802345b8e5f6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristics indicate it's an image-only document designed to trick users into clicking embedded links, which are hosted on various compromised CMS upload directories. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests a redirection chain likely leading to a malicious payload or phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 70 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lipases+and+proteases+are PDF link annotation
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae9d53fcf6---4042598390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608341a850a6b---36006959858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisipujikomugixeliman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d381677eabd---30575174266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/barowotujir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/taxebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manualismedicina.hu/fileok/file/winosaruropozigimogazerot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/nusavokixigekasukiwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qcfloor.com/userfiles/file/24769889477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/40715939693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/26990953150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/42996159571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8742cca745---50898017472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77685e3e43---xuwerex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udfodo3cvl5d9hg1up519c8ke3/60308117031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cndsm1seu0dbtdd7gifokm1bup/jukoxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/kubevigevagigekewifada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94c26ab2da---fifezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089be8148ea9---saxuvesaxofujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dvr2thom3cfhdqf2lr4gqa7bp/22982947747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/31141507337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d09d8d99076c33c0e84a8438904d41a/kuzajujawakafigegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f202946df9ccd92b17824668f839f8/42724788536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b81f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB81F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD036 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 08a5e2364c771ddf58a13eb6eef8025a79bdc91bcf2ef87b3422387605bdb63e
font_02_sfnt_off0000e781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE781 13656 bytes
SHA-256: cfa7faebd49965e55cf027519362b3e2dca5fbb1552f8e84cb475e644f535d11