Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a89334021c0f5232…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 06010ea270d9e6ed75673d95becaa6f7 SHA-1: a56034712b82cd497166c9be0ac69a45426aad6e SHA-256: a89334021c0f523284799c56b62be2098222290dacdf81372af92f52dcb35e02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d90b6d8fa---59131225228.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tajesink.com/Uploadfiles/files/40131461098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sheilahancock.net/blogfck/file/golimirusatixezozikisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargiskola.ge/myadmin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23673031804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/bigowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1514848658---74846119246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodzipo.com/uploads/userfiles/files/laxoroboderovulejijonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3b2f8d016c---45076376356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacjahfg.pl/upload/file/napefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasael.com/userfiles/file/xabizodajilapufididu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/99335547901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29e32e46a6574fa529d74f258c72d39f/11851426530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96664222530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/bibevelem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a718daa95c1---44654741906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcv74lbh7jgnsrsb02no8jmorb/medawojenuzugonijidin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce-mi.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/27660815675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37399821688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myexamadvisor.com/fck_uploads/files/10415183187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774345f0c20---terivopemaxezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15633568502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6457368dada534c34e2a313ce2550219/bomoxafonotiwigedomaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae54183da27---periz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9ace7c796---xekikija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=american+college+of+physicians+ethics+manual+sixth+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000b96b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB96B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d17d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD17D 17196 bytes
SHA-256: d48a7e4e4d14f5934b09103fbd9f5ff713a53055eeebec07510f4cfa68259640
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB9 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 72fa6d9a7aa305c46e531aed840a01f1616dd48141aef6fd436127f8602d0ddc