Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89e94747cde7b341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-08-17 20:31:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 9de8e918db9dcea2eee137288d76b3f6 SHA-1: 60bab970da2fecfa86f585cdfd31998f60d5836d SHA-256: 89e94747cde7b34118db7ee9b2708e8d91a987cbeeadfd6121b79dacfa03f322
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, including WordPress installations, which host PDF files. The lure text suggests a download for 'adobe after effects 3d templates free download', indicating a social engineering attempt to trick users into downloading a malicious file. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kopari.hu/files/file/82548837259.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://penney1970.com/clients/7/74/747debde904cce1d9d58e62e9103e361/File/gojozadukani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a44315c0bf9c024bc62584d4f035efb/rekopugufusiziwevekowusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608881ea2f6e9---rofuditovukefijuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.bgk-meshkova.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68655606900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybaobidinhdinh.com/upload/files/lupefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/60703802737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfbcdb4ce1f224800d6d37e15049550b/xapuvevifepufelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddc87e76701---77695383296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba226247721a46d33bef0d2f4288e9a8/jusirikinesafoxeboxediged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/norekozutepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risorsaterra.it/userfiles/files/jugewutiramom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/25940850562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dc99ffb031eb4d55e17d6c1f2013ad7/poroju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/divuseviduwaresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/84768209963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuzipalowigekajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/39233777972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brigitte-farner.ch/userfiles/files/16079886458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/rivubavarilixopideluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150115_082458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrtowing.ca/Lawyers/userfiles/file/16684446296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca8017ddf3---68372990447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5c0f5292f---bebedetenofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/kufujikunisetuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+after+effects+3d+templates+free+download+cs6PDF 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_off0000d620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD620 16284 bytes
SHA-256: 4919f9faa2d1e1370c3aca67616c0c8fc5b863d02de4d740ac6483a2bfede35d
font_01_sfnt_off00010092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10092 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 034d5d0799877aa23154e5cc0b4e3181a4fa6fa81f4123c308a8e7b635ae27bb
font_02_sfnt_off00011ada.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1