Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a889ee331dbf7af5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9747db4b44ca5da44a4097409f4e9093 SHA-1: fa9bc49d6ac9803ca6c6d24f96c2f8126da82666 SHA-256: a889ee331dbf7af53c60e038e21ccdb63dc778179beb9e5e7f779fda50b838c4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, including links to compromised CMS uploads and link farms on disposable hosting, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=ncert+solutions+for+class+7+science+chapter+14+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aedfe14a9a0a837d099ce9584481e39/61611619727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29279701607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/96096267632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/26763655518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurier48.pl/files/userfiles/file/93538202177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/89812377109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/53861007625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldadmin.k12cart.com/media/files/45493817437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/38275657731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161086f9718c57---nalejalulivojisetewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.travelwithtaangoo.com/img/file/siwipagowowokemepovawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fishandcosolicitors.com/uploads/files/doxurexixekatanuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/28910867636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddedf8b23ae2800790356b13c98b57cd/37885828611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a477e5a0e3d---visewalexumabarofululube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gbfrjournal.org/pds/userfiles/files/5319964899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1962reunion.com/clients/c/c5/c535eb5d361035e84cedf1152ec4da8f/File/84572052024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/bububajolikasumipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--4k0b43gkwo4gn.com/upload/editor/file/98744208764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashionflutters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1176196325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cnn2mvrirqfi0pfmh6usjo9ti2/34272990796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/nebadalijulagonasarazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6ghdf9c90maeftfth6hmr6rkl/57280218564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clase86marista.com/clients/25276/File/wuvikemutorariduzomobiba.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_off0000dba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA5 18784 bytes
SHA-256: 403f26f93c09604483757aec591c81d2b7fe58f3163b80f35b3bde1104643d36
font_01_sfnt_off00010bb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB3 10972 bytes
SHA-256: a919b9e01befab9a982263fe3563050251734a33e95230dd1127f650a6643b89
font_02_sfnt_off0001253a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1