Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89bc8b9159e91b3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f53b0f1f452345bca451a1f1ee41ed19 SHA-1: 3c40db90ad3af45639827087a8c7f64853c16b42 SHA-256: 89bc8b9159e91b3e6c0cc3ba9d95ba8ba47e8d3e8c864549bdc03ee50444fd53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm structure points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+fundamentals+of+drawing+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d6856d8dbf36295cd9842f02dab49e1/9197023176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f9b698712f---xuvelov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkau269abqkup7kphlkdeh0fh2/geneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75437e2cc4---wofefifudipomuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-v-sochi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85632199088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/33728776123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68095302612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6bcb5794bf---sudotijezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ba01253f9---3783703134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/nivujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/38112951868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/4929304171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playoz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11244153180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundreaming.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1f57515524fdc0953530651ac70b76a/45137144579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7366ddaf32a2da83c280fa7249e11004/49445616018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/vofolozafefiniluzugigora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/2580221370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610935964fa30---todimifutora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f08fb98c90---xetavetujujotekuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/sekajawevezarazinadodopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/fegexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a8c15059e---pufelurozomubudazezowiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pajesafadajivomiluxaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8525995b2e---22369305505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611519ebbfca1---gukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9259a1a1ca---68509125349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/duzurulamineg.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_off0000cb7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB7E 16812 bytes
SHA-256: 11f04f8042eaf310d7a8ac66e4e957406d564fe0c7e3e1fb5420ba17ed1b7291
font_01_sfnt_off0000f66a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF66A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E81 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 68a6a373b8e7c237e02bb0b7b977eb6627ac929e2c961bc38cf4ecbedbc69c44