Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89f2985caaf66ac9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 23:17:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 97870b71f92d65ed96c60cd604016eda SHA-1: 2360d807c7e5862766bf8453575799f4d5db4e10 SHA-256: 89f2985caaf66ac96230a02c2b5acdb1ca3aafa1505b84860e5361bdf371a78d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on potentially disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or leverage vulnerable infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://ocw.tw/uploads/files/32168423205.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130cfb354507---21259456246.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f626d4ca8db00a9a6d11d16070b75e1/viseso.pdf
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog/file/46460479375.pdf
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/29914619565.pdf
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xigijib.pdf
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esdnbo6dkn9jpud5e9iv8aoa1t/3316311288.pdf
    • http://professional-tuner.at/uploaded/file/bovegujodimikaxed.pdf
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b21e700420---satupitakunutevo.pdf
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e31e224a9---gekepadodoxojamawewaxuz.pdf
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/25138052189.pdf
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sateniwagagesemigiredu.pdf
    • http://yuqiaohome.com/uploads/files/202109101321421865.pdf
    • http://gamulchi.org/userfiles/file/64037942536.pdf
    • http://astorandblack.net/emailer/userfiles/file/4066322760.pdf
    • http://sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vonidawesonutijalu.pdf
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vopopakobokexireleferafa.pdf
    • https://newsale.linyn.mobi/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/60032888255.pdf
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/xoxapodiku.pdf
    • http://ballarioarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/wesegupulixo.pdf
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/80649026971.pdf
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd1943e8f8---kunuvowa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=english+is+an+official+language+of+india
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d703.bin
dcd4aa36c83a506a207137e0fec6ff131a500ac25d904a9b5aed29c515ba7304
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD703 10640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef0f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF0F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010721.bin
590f22799ae73a5907e5236d97e3c17096055827d9904b46d791fbf96a167d8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10721 18072 bytes