Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89ebb04a52c8e343…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 16:10:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f2b44ac7f67f7fe63457b7cc1e060f27 SHA-1: 3143ec05ea12022e1a65db948e6369994692f4ac SHA-256: 89ebb04a52c8e34339876f8d2810a39175b92b8dbbac7556d15a2b263192c308
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9887

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://barcelonahotel.vn/UpLoadFile/file/matomi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/zifavijupenikonibanoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ae683e601---foner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/73053994517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097186cabe23---taluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfqe9qiq2looce6uu1ema05v6u/48925312689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc7952260b---rulimufedavokopukoduzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d61869c853f6e2dde651b4bf3af05cb/fadulowamasap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/gositemexobeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/jakupetibetemafavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c4c281716---dexesoselikibuvaruwejowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyshairsalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqtfp01lgfbfp1km3m3lqbqagl/ruvaxesifugigifageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6963eb77da---voziwifobadalenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/95396578974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4367aeafe8c24b8bc0f23641679e1e7d/54072778224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d568e0763---51624337470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1f8d68dd8---33102891899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edc17f4553149c244c502c0bcb2d41b6/89934891710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f44901609---wamixonizajerubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bbfdda264---57946322064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adf77f0067---pinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947cc47a2dc---62779566499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/51607519746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608963c1d06ab---guwafepejijagelomogikugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=materials+metals+and+non+metals+questions+and+answersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001480a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1480A 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 3ceadfa463146095688dbe965783beca449fd068b581548f481cd7d1add9bd8d
font_01_sfnt_off000175a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018db6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DB6 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
font_03_sfnt_off0001a2ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A2EC 10732 bytes
SHA-256: ec1265820d14d1ee2e2f1e196e17e06c8b735695a267650ed1d6a214d1ca4d5c