Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89ce8221462577b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:54:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d1fbd73bff90594e53cd7bf3140cd4b7 SHA-1: c65d1be52632727f686f230057070821645c8729 SHA-256: 89ce8221462577b0014b90b57ee0b3c43fcc052397b1c9293218fb60bf253930
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the true destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852ee645bc9---40113226468.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/37156562419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/93866335380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adurucui.com/ckfinder/files/94541130001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/55864128837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57101281748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/sulofuvelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71fa361907---62897661694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/79136384488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6tj2iraqtfnjap1suvl9u7ol3/vekume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f7ea1e55a---bajavululovifumetosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7347ca596f---jolunelovedorutujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/86624346661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/579a0e53325881f466655465e227336e/xigomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/temusedojaleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samudra99.com/contents//files/73443677829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebv7707ip35i9qs6dnl1s9lr25/gavizozeratutudixakuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcpingie.be/public/files/jerokajulaxatoliwupope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acf371b8c830d0cb6e87edc9084373f0/52014249871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/99132246141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igorodstore.ru/files/userfiles/files/xulaxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8cd661db27---14647859652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758e1c5394a---30521487557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe741c2794fd654e3de35a4a9ba7e539/rorizax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7cda1be00---dukevuvuxuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=examples+of+torque+in+real+lifePDF 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_off0000e2c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C0 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 39fc3c64bcc97989850615974171b2b7a2f63da228e95e6c18691d7f98ff9e06
font_01_sfnt_off00010f7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12792 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 0e128d25772bce69f289d2759f0e99089e2ab057a52bbefe89e91eb71764e685