Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 989431c9c22a7d6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:54:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 455f70fc600374be5e71d51641580c6f SHA-1: 8ce4a6e2db3cacc7765e02dd1a41c41ed431c436 SHA-256: 989431c9c22a7d6fe4438acb3c40abbeb4ec82acf29a4c466d32bf843ab18dd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest it is part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=define+gdp+and+gnp
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/26537248053.pdf
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/xinutuzedolunoliliri.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094cfa5190ed---peboxurij.pdf
    • http://dietmoiquangle.com/webroot/img/files/89759829225.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912e5bba815---27500586542.pdf
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55udkq583d2g8b29e4l8ttdrnl/30824271587.pdf
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b35f5570d---29873406385.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df10f825fe7b5c5d1b82c3b48560fe08/29188418089.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1ur42j4obt8a58vnspkgt3q0n/milogivizeti.pdf
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/64182342034.pdf
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/buvidevamesetip.pdf
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59hn1tl48ro2fhkiks5ppi1olc/sarulogawewalumepu.pdf
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsd5k04lrfcid5e1duv06pbt9h/78699065533.pdf
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748eca053d5---93859395777.pdf
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d5a364024---70387690944.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb71c9c8998---19273599803.pdf
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eacc74d6d07966046c07e0d8ea8739e9/gokexaxamaj.pdf
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sp1mo9l6i5cogi0hupgmd28dpr/45709591164.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c717f99a7d5---66713841932.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af85f9012f5---rulexoxedezatimozixogax.pdf
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/37760303983.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_off00015f1e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F1E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017735.bin
94554937666e892afcfadb251da4e4b77c113255043e27e63c64e7e7912c9963
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17735 10140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00018db6.bin
82557c964530a73a5bf3a7471ba8cc9611b760141e4780780e1d2bab9c6353d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DB6 18528 bytes