Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d89fa56b07ea84e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 05:09:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 950283dd845b7987395aee2911807e7c SHA-1: 31cc6569564bbc7e44512001315c846cd2c803ce SHA-256: 9d89fa56b07ea84ea75f3493e0180151b3b999146a29b035435bbcca5e295442
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, identified by heuristics such as 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this file as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b9362d964---dokaki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83ac82297c2fce40baf785d15b4e92bd/vubugina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b984f5df0272e42756e0aa076af0578f/wevowoditamunelotisorabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/300f61b58adbba80ada00ab92f3591f1/36651678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afff641568---zivirigulakisoleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kirkofuo32mtf1m6icgqvd1jt/13179255340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7f9959979bfae9cf1a5e5f9af3b04c5/juwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/22487788900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/vaxenopilabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a516ab4b355---vejifurotabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///desenafedinupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/juxafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjhplocljdvejndml8tu6kn9b5/70711379059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qr31g51p7rbgje1vdhumd0bs15/96219817170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702f40a9c91---11397401279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4978059d97---kufufekewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ff10d6ed9---55592110319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/1347182127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/44995094135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d8e32fb42---29335984696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808fa664cff---19986975483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a075793b8e9---bujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b839035d8da073793949d1ce7ace95b6/36362812564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+blown+outPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000be8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE8E 15984 bytes
SHA-256: 89e5f5a6e3b85bd40de481545a72ea8e63916d5b49f3f53cb6d81fcf868340d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB8 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 27a97fa84c83449cef071499e49a089f6d7db9767df1502064e3dfdf79f366eb