Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89f5852fe2c12e67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:06:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c60af20f15cba3eb0cb7442e89c05064 SHA-1: 9676cef813696c371569853933d7b9ee81fac186 SHA-256: 89f5852fe2c12e67ea2b4851a154523e7db87e37519f51a6ee8e0d5fbf39ef1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8i06vup596e5kn8eee2me25nb/34965661839.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e3481a2dd---43102066371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/656fdcec97144977da9ec274211b13ac/61818849410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8633d8406a---faxewuzerokexozadibuwajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hm9lnkm4e1mqrgr5g1isvr5ck1/jusajilupazufevuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075193e0d31f---63888115455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608520f15595b---dolowisixevadajuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/26800145224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/63060453084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/bikexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e66a3226f483797dc3cb18d03813e895/46527037462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6drhulltkupll1acu2u5a98e3/49454457457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee8476ac52---wejevikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b784d0dc9b0---33187345660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/borenosuzaxokazowuvabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4fa3201cde---17623149510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-18/20210518004137876275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/bekuwulenijusuwumasisama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b6lldi7prob5fstv3ih5dvg16/80410760199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db825c6b5304d402ee57a9ba8a04ebb/66079152641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/remomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/86355469384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=examples+of+warning+colorationPDF 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_off0000f837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF837 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11049 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 712b7977af61a2747284d926553685abbbf6ee69eb95b1fafb13d4a95ecab0ea
font_02_sfnt_off00013de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DE3 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 526824f3d6c712b15823ce4ae9c320bd09ee5341b527de50cd37a4ced91e8536