Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89cda210caf73a8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-24 21:18:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8d7cafd9a83b4b0130dafd822d130b57 SHA-1: 876bd92022ef9e02d7912ea2c7e8478838f48cba SHA-256: 89cda210caf73a8e9d61ae42d052438086675f2e3fc774994ebe14911b05e5bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+7+ultimate+n+32+bit+product+key PDF link annotation
    • http://infas.cz/images/wiswig/file/63152252924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ser-buk.com/userfiles/file/70665855046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiu-hang.com/upfiles/editor/files/visasajuletifesenitekonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/193478165061481ab0198d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/figilalolanodajudisegeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://812423.qqtogeljackpot2.com/contents/files/71631905740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletroluz-al.com/_IMG/img_internas/file/bipadodozoromugefomibegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pevak.info/UserFiles/File/48980005669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jts-electrical.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejujeleteni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hpv8t2d4htmtnvr59h6bc9paj/25485257836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/dunutoxezusawirigunojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/19015463372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/86976713358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twilaw.com/files/files/rubexipexikizagigina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161454fb3f0607---worut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archbot.pl/files/file/86421846760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuysuujk.handysociality.com/upload/files/40508716266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunhuaduytan.com/upload/userfiles/files/ratizolatokolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esteticka-stomatologie.cz/files/content/file/6186548278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulleungroadtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_D33C2751F5ED2CF7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a49399c744---nevika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/wifawume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlas-consulting.ro/fckeditor/fisiere/file/14908924906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adrfarysz.pl/userfiles/file/wimoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urs-certification.com/gais/image/file/41495162494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/40427730497.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_off0000b3dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3DD 11544 bytes
SHA-256: c40be218145c1577ff2ec8911948392e9275fae4512ace489ba0c977b9866f21
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF35 15792 bytes
SHA-256: e4b037a2a01aa5465a0c803b2f2c4a245eba47116b2125d96e9ffa1ada928da6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f769.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF769 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1