Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89bcdf486d51bd71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:37:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 528a882f7465443320d7565ce58fc515 SHA-1: d25ae5ad530849ab7ccacbd307a6673a52a703f5 SHA-256: 89bcdf486d51bd71c7cbdbc2144890c084c40265dbe78d26545434ca84d09a2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to disposable hosting sites, many of which are WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The primary URL, 'https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sherlock+holmes+samagra+in+bengali+pdf+download', indicates a phishing lure related to downloading a specific book. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, flagging it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sherlock+holmes+samagra+in+bengali+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcff1a6272---kazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/tobuziwunetekowuwefoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076404e05fff---84120224581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realfootball.gr/userfiles/file/46666997459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36240794797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/34294443668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/51231308023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/61767722311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6b5ed3415---pafapumewawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/021b259e7f4e2236901879b6808e3c34/44218586558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocjecj0evgn0dtaumoh9bfl9b3/mifobolepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/77536571651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/89147153289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/97337338639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/93410321707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-affaires.com/img/pics/files/150968831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8044f3d80c43605a10beb98d87f401f2/54053540838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b2d8b0b55175f0d66627e1bd15d9c76/94110643473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/mizasuzuxijigasitujubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t08m6g8cf8pfjjjj60ord83gm3/52928548460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n02oc8lbmmhao8i6oq8dgsqhg1/mizobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46725fdc2ddb604a7295d4ff4f691bc5/jesafumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/96265247784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab10527f980---jexisadomuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/19944327231.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_off0000bbef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD406 11360 bytes
SHA-256: c1774c34ab630d460f8bdc2752de76f490c789cab4083c8f709a7d8ae02248ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2F 17248 bytes
SHA-256: b0b81c31b4ea15527636183e369dac3d27e98526e6a4873ce3257b3873521ce4