Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89c7faccc045bb26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-14 17:59:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 99b8dae41b24ee64561eaaa544de93d6 SHA-1: 069595a760d123fb4a6044e68e0d9df440f5f094 SHA-256: 89c7faccc045bb2647c36b50ea6dd1276c1ac6ab7694b0118f0fc5d0ab0755cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites and appear to be part of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised upload links suggests an attempt to host and distribute malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb770be986---87302194228.pdf
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f368efc887a---5805896263.pdf
    • http://jeyadhurgatemple.com/userfiles/file/30650759537.pdf
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/tugipinirapexifed.pdf
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1ab574465---bewigovesosalaxijafut.pdf
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102d3e913055---24812068561.pdf
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/68503078881.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e84d7427950---36429853393.pdf
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/xatesutakifapi.pdf
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/vegasatukinotan.pdf
    • https://samsungklima.net/upload/ckfinder/files/58270465436.pdf
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85de80849061ae99d1044c83ee91fe67/8760089142.pdf
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsc0j8168rc0afl2rqq2faqh4c/sefukulawusakafedefukipaj.pdf
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/21380498903.pdf
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/sejibewani.pdf
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/37336720641.pdf
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/sisofowifobilizubow.pdf
    • http://bigdoughpizza.com/uploads/files/nifebe.pdf
    • http://powerfalcon.net/uppic/files/mutivutebizuk.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ee482bac9832c29adc78800a28197e/92670418527.pdf
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/7446717541.pdf
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/14923166880.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=lauterbach+podbus+usb+controller+driver+windows+10+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec5c.bin
4aa47aacb4e1830ace2bb88a0ca906f5a835443c579007a16b4e8af2a659e73c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5C 16548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011738.bin
6d980aa86f309c5ddd878baff51fb093ffbe7e1a80e3f4245561dec791ff0c20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11738 11136 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013100.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13100 16792 bytes