Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89f5cf33771a3d37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-10 19:36:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c47a3719dd76c433bc214030290efadb SHA-1: 82ff249e10a9eab562420670b063c6152bd945e8 SHA-256: 89f5cf33771a3d3741c0b412643673a42e6486d8f1b0abc890447898ee92e250
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of a 'crash bandicoot' download lure in one of the URLs indicates a social engineering tactic to entice users to click. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=crash+bandicoot+it%27s+about+time+download PDF link annotation
    • https://libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotoginepuweweketido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/menonojosiwiwupunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/91437141883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardens-spa.com/user_pict/file/sumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunapvietnam.thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/12233047644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/tezuxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/78799222753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs/files/54178705383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613672c5cd295---powarobepokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135275e29ccd---45587082264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f1161c4a6---belivibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aexpress.lv/index/images/up/file/80499229381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3f9403875---pujaxobafaxibalulufebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.net/contents/files/wabefufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7529f9cd806220eef710e9c45afe639/25417234828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ff91e1a08fa4cbc6a1cc42a0b427c4/67444276053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbf463fcfa868d07d19778b7316992e4/pafelujejuxusomereposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/xekakotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47783310003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icloudcleaners.com/uploads/account/autoresponderfiles/sitiwawagupolatebulojudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49416799408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44644000014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/fuvodarilinewuduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highgaincomposites.com/img/file/202194122138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websteravelandscaping.com/editorData/file/lifemuvunenepoxotunukawip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldtradezone.com/userfiles/file/veget.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC78D 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 9a4086030e51dfeb679a105bf3ec81f7ca11aa522519b5b7e4fd4bc5df32d700
font_01_sfnt_off0000e121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE121 18144 bytes
SHA-256: afbf7da6fd8e949020f1ffc3ee5f2a7f79baf9c58ba415e13175b6216a67b3da
font_02_sfnt_off0001100b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1100B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1