Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89ca7a7000c105a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:43:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e03532a27fdb6d73a5719d857256133c SHA-1: 0c0e9758f507a159a02a051d1ffb2729d5c3f498 SHA-256: 89ca7a7000c105a8ab700396cc8136ac978183a6773e2a92996b14f09c2abd73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of external URI heuristics and the compromised CMS upload link farm rule indicate a pattern of directing users to potentially malicious or phishing-related content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/wuketetamidukuw.pdf
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34079c736a3e4cc69e97c52a1a31328d/2300057449.pdf
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/53669943805.pdf
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5l56p2jj6hf5npro9a39rj6er5/minesewexuti.pdf
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48683385972.pdf
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/mojiru.pdf
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16075b6e52dedf---xadetixuvozutovitowotu.pdf
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702d2df39af---18936945591.pdf
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kpmen0joc1jo1n3d1d7rvnbvb6/xikoxuji.pdf
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45cef966442cae074f70ded6837e6332/56067013265.pdf
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210613002433111.pdf
    • http://ntrc.biz/clients/f/f0/f0759d16aca5b3dfc9163ee994587b7f/File/20992845014.pdf
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03ab82e6ae---85840414864.pdf
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16212457365874.pdf
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/rakidivekivu.pdf
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/jopabedug.pdf
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077aa4e10c6d---ruxodakezuluvelikezemiz.pdf
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c265f914c6f---manukulumit.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/je5hf6cuo688gug7fuios9t1sb/supuwijufuzupokotiju.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0vdj9cq45vk8qugum2lqf56p56/janaserefebu.pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58c6523c522d505999c6000d9814264c/sigerapotojagidazugozufub.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae6f4ac102e---mibagiloxas.pdf
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/18933123924.pdf
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/51921480824.pdf
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ef7e562cc450f21a21a1bd226141a0/visabibiladetamarer.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=motivation+letter+about+yourself
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675fb36db880eb865a1fff5fcf6cb59e/funenulinu.pdf
    • 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_off0000fb90.bin
c5d612cee7ac05d0ce696baea079ab63cb2eb53ae21ac794f3a0c324b3c58859
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB90 10620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011410.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11410 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c22.bin
6aa823c70439d3d555b05e14bfd296265e011d339d7d7a11637bd0e2168820d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C22 17804 bytes