Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 989e692027d6dbeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 10:29:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4bf7ec988c45e70b95f981a9b9f73255 SHA-1: 7602a2c5d7d71ac975fd3fc4ffebc23ea18cccb2 SHA-256: 989e692027d6dbeb0a5f71b095ee2af00012498c4d5841d1c3cddbf75f8520b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms on potentially disposable hosting supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+ding+a+ling+song
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/91367302258.pdf
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/gamoxolilajenakoziwazutuk.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3532ecf318e1fd595ac99974a9a0f0b/memijivopireb.pdf
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadedorabovakivup.pdf
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8acdec33fc---womedinejisudo.pdf
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608710ff47ed7---luruvimopewuzemu.pdf
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cedf5859593---ririwuwusilatiwanusejuv.pdf
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b3febe962---newiremukuzi.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cfa219431---lutotufavixodoge.pdf
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210624161802199.pdf
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/butafusopuromul.pdf
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/87764067880.pdf
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ab4be732c---93168851782.pdf
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/44260704628.pdf
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba43417a4f---bajavugarovot.pdf
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b83cf6453c3ec63e97526ffc796ddd50/50601451428.pdf
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/370f1fdbb035c33fc5aa245ed05b5b86/11666084834.pdf
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33c75ee64e0e89f2c8ae526bff73e2ce/xuvemoxigironivaser.pdf
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086330124bcd---50868506671.pdf
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcd09ac2cbaf826c76f4c9f0113d76ce/35446118653.pdf
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7641d75038551f8d49fe59b6b5ff10ab/fenuwir.pdf
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/83605630820.pdf
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/99638864633.pdf
    • http://brnc85.com/clients/878796/File/29364450341.pdf
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e42762722e7cb1edaba9a81fc0b58261/fobegusari.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_off0000e98f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000101a1.bin
87d1028c08c30775aeef94960f4462c5e7505dbddf56d9400f672903f63d5a51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A1 19048 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013320.bin
373671e8f01b57a0f64dd75e156eb91b90d490654f1fbe8e9c7fc8ae65cf96fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13320 10200 bytes