Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89f26eb074fa85de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-06-09 19:32:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a90ffe1fb0f8d5305ea1efd377f86df8 SHA-1: 3345e7d350104557c634205500e1c8b3ab309b6e SHA-256: 89f26eb074fa85de8fe7322f1a7406ffa64aa1bd72da06da77cf40ee1e2db2ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern appears to be phishing or malware distribution through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=simcity+buildit+mod+apk+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/49998360723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/texakexowuxasidorogidekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4cdc8064b---xurigidakonusavaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a929231e27a8b93791f575efc3b655eb/dojizijajoduwizibugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/webusigijivivitazolexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e13a2a31ec2275c5efa54130720f58a9/wibexunofibebarurogunaner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d79a70197---85236570197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g9oenbk4m4vf3g7p9qteqaua9/60228866600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cac8d958be---14839047218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/subutiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victoryelectricalsupply.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35678499316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9j2mq9sfmgg0i2ahegru3n2ad/96530321665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a251124f54---66772265159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/sukimuxumovatuxivatuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/374cb93b4e6218cf4a26018047f7bbdf/64700003641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/lovirelugunenozewin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fbd6782b60b2ee93d1578bc2b7458b1/nufoduwimevumopegadulowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000e858.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE858 5624 bytes
SHA-256: d9ed9ca83c0e756ac30fd1f4828b85a3b0e4079a73d78a660124db9771b2dba0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB77 21776 bytes
SHA-256: ce2d7a6d75a5462904a2556e35c80fc65a7506a8b2a43fb273be4614630eff20
font_02_sfnt_off00012c93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C93 16204 bytes
SHA-256: c988415812f594187b0a0ed75dc52802e798e1695b49bd300f8412a65040a449