Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89fa2df5815f990c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-26 14:37:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 09b844de9270aa6d0a450cbb64e15d2f SHA-1: 9931b604ebb2149e03dd4e4c184baf1c265f2096 SHA-256: 89fa2df5815f990cfaa0acf30b711b6443f1561c8f01004e084f818297b829d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clean+coder+pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a9292e6d4---divuvusuderi.pdf
    • https://vinatech.com/userfiles/file/1776663547.pdf
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/deladubetixijotetagizojog.pdf
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jibasejid.pdf
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f596c48e0---zeledudoporujimemamop.pdf
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136511311e9e---faguwezazazupiramug.pdf
    • http://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/26524241792.pdf
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a22c221eda---giwad.pdf
    • http://unitec-egypt.net/userfiles/file/nenep.pdf
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/jikimadit.pdf
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/33026775357.pdf
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/dubofujobexuwavuwisu.pdf
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/gulot.pdf
    • https://oilbasaro.com/web/images/ckfinder/files/20210831232014.pdf
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/23534095022.pdf
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d446d2668---tizunokobuwov.pdf
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/63773518824.pdf
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/17806953627.pdf
    • https://at1apigroup3.com/contents/files/88684719734.pdf
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/files/dejugufimejafe.pdf
    • http://jayeonrak.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/sixejuwasosez.pdf
    • https://marthomaktrplrdiocese.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22519198050.pdf
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/mepalupevanodomedudux.pdf
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dd77d907b1375391ce8c00ad567b148/vupujelu.pdf
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/26259510029.pdf
    • http://vektor-bezpeki.com/userfiles/files/72030279061.pdf
    • 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_off0000b7c5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7C5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfd7.bin
9d8568919c0ae949a3807f8c722f59c97708b5c613d1126aa00b493920ebe8a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD7 17856 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd27.bin
622e2456b90902903ca0fd42dff7b33eccf6a82b2e9c0c8ef55dff36efed5fc3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD27 10284 bytes