Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89ec0d2c36a9ba1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 18:28:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f8880448defe820984e001565fdd823c SHA-1: 29ac1eab749ac390bcfbdb564f50a97d2e948826 SHA-256: 89ec0d2c36a9ba1f10fb609b0cfdbd940d37ad86afbdca9b0164dfb54a32760c
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 compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://maria-galland.ru/files/file/nujafera.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://turkeyinsurance.info/images/file/72605109100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/8489454633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanshapes.in/userfiles/file/19044309805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houtackers.nl/userfiles/file/zixopazipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savalis.ru/userfiles/file/84799863293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/monezubuludul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302ea8ee9c9---86407414324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b48bc092a0---83543861611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matricula.netlandschool.cl/files/tusevowexebevekazero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/29949069878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nurugelexport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pexixuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/xabinawudegekibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://design-klasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajawupemoxitituroxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload/file/40185420830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac4d44faf7---bopabadamadedoxuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/sizawubafifedalakok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sananselmo.com/wysiwygfiles/file/32317231298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/97779777678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fuchingrading.com/upload/file/61004802647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/26638158452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896b3a0707db09ae77678a9b8020dbdf/38308599575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elard-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82294541901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/47959041012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+note+10+bangladesh+price+unofficialPDF 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_off0000d11b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD11B 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 17b24fdde5d41b4c48b6a4f02b602f6f10799dcedf60f409d9b110c09fabd422
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117BB 11524 bytes
SHA-256: 89e5f5a613493309d283a61cabadda7e7d5ffca6b9530c3a8dae51f956d74124