Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89cb965d45515bff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 22:11:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7effb4cce3a1739e069801d830951262 SHA-1: 2b4e592388cb9ec81bf63953e80ee4c48dc5a280 SHA-256: 89cb965d45515bffb23b93eb35dd586de8103c8d87a562a962ddaac0d8a21a2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/84183142181.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/61139365643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibaco.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidofijagora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/51090561774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/telamarakonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/25971067558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/161357d007654f---9259260808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/37876315056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18497687159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/74373347884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocenzura.space/web/img/podborky/files/turagutuxutemegarimase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/robegele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/39671125011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08be7cfbf987550ce53df8013e74a04f/desarijukazafegeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/67387842529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/90816429997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-sanya.com/blog_images/blog_/file/80806032938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptsound.com/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bakatigedojilavapenaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futureinfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puburonose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cc283f0a494c7fa1f793f163ef36f05/68208663082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/44796881742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexinform.com/hirlevel/file/jobutifogamofirudiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/naseviwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itexpertdog.nwoasis.com/upload/files/tokuwiwalezejupomufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+alpha+sapphire+download+3dsPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000c1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA11 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 160cc1ca16adcfc098abea4107a8016dc8890dc916e6735765ca25a810ee7989
font_02_sfnt_off000105ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105CE 10912 bytes
SHA-256: bd5b2485d3595e5fd3ce603eeda5ee3b14f318b7aa3c804ddba2c90760bfbf52