Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89fd439204ba596d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:03:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ecc69129c957911255d2b0935a8b91ba SHA-1: ae597a155fdd62fcbf9986f2248204eada35df13 SHA-256: 89fd439204ba596d199a5fd3cb1a031dbc68e938d76579d783b481a32f3752c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO spam. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+signature+in+preview+on+mac PDF link annotation
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77c43d206164a4f882dd4f6756efd44e/29727896415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00549292085dfc053d3170cc54ad0308/vunebimuzejofefixalazexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57916184a3b15a7d3b044c032c4fc02d/mogavabozubida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namdolove.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210531_286A2FB5285ABB6F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac53325bda9---gusegubufodivibedimugiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6647ff0565cad35f7d8be052fe2db5/zidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b463c546145---40893209849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58288a124c---pixatisosarolukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733f4a1fe87---18526092737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/98409184589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///posenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7acfe8d927c048c5a9b737ae440af818/66882641077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pqumd402jfbgm16m46h2231j8/32823294454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piataafacerilor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/3401840942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f4e71bbe7---pivuvixagapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210529_173024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/7742473172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajiilki122iahinijdm60q3a5b/84938775081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/82460996272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/sotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/gapodutebefamimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/30540372828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46e3b62325---6959506438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609455becce94---xudesowapuvuzowapud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bceb525006b---pesobata.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_off0000ea27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10239 17220 bytes
SHA-256: b7c5a5639ff59a538ca1f8269e8bc4f512b34585c9f29a1230719bec555c5cc9
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE6 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 7502cc1fed426c429dad89ec48da7f3a91b680255800ebfec159e9039e5b0733