Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89f5a6f54e398297…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:58:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7d6c5a52570bed1c959fdc2add5cb133 SHA-1: d8b6922e8815ed06d995cb018f28c8752c66bd81 SHA-256: 89f5a6f54e3982972c84d29ebb91ac8e48ab3c5f456d3b325d58e969e78d5661
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://mrcookie.tw/upload/editor/file/011449041960.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/baxajipawetikates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/6087259702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2245fd4af8---lozuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52ec7a46c6---fuwawozelududewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/80932677719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce757e4c39---48715910332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b91b420d1---lukejesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161165f5d7b966---vofiwerelufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/46560540185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/poxedaziriti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc202ae0056b5a222b69c88e221c2147/51413363126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/kubojotuzunofejivulixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984256bf018---73756773909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesmashclub.com/imgUpload/files/36916140822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f1b64ca792---filademotaxefapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoldlepes.hu/userfiles/file/najuxutojujasilonokaliva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16226219834025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/37910025894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7o874a6m2d0phq1kcgcck89vbp/39895262389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4kgok3sn80ms5tumfr95a56r0/nidedakevopumibaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cs5m9c9agf5825boejsu5ora7o/7883251270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd3c4730b---32155966240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35d2b27f59f798a9623bd62fc17d8db2/88529933366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c039b3c1a9a7be0021cefcf5a7803e/gipapitubupezidotavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=richard+clayderman+love+story+pdfPDF 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_off0000c90a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC90A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE121 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 2ee6c00fdd27c1cc54bfad15c8cd22936b8a5b1c4e83e21eccc89436619eabd1
font_02_sfnt_off0000faeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAEB 20212 bytes
SHA-256: fcbd44e16bf6f77f3549836f339ffaf24c552f46cda1a25f6b5829bf8c6a576a