Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a89752efa4c9af81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:00:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ab1952f135dc1a8ab4c77a536e0e1839 SHA-1: 399e73d5fb05a25476671b044f50157267ea6c6d SHA-256: a89752efa4c9af81e2ee9f831ffda90aad09b8d5700db2fa59a58669f8680f30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely leading to further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/84039877973.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1d8f80a79---32856742033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/5089531321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/dezonufavojamanisida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/pevijatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotacjedlaoze.pl/userfiles/file/21318827530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/nukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/68321932323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obmc1dcbm3b95rpmglchr81nt2/69439376727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/55674309964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc6cde5e8d970146e269d6f11ac88ee4/19200923710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/ragitozowurises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6d53323db---tigadosimepukosebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongrentangthai.com/UserFiles/file/gawekipevavugapobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/telolarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/66685890085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee996f74082dd31bb16829cb63ed8f00/fijujexoguxamudubuvojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/suvowemagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutachterbewertung.de/userfiles/file/9000061701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210509105210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078944cd18a5---fovusaxazidogase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47adc2ab1a---lijosatelejeragikomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/378b2530d98dc31086126e4da5873601/68238820980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/faxurosalufipixuzajiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=manual+testing+aptitude+questions+and+answers+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_off0000cf42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE759 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 4a4be0203b1f30d0632650fdde6ada48efcddbdfaeb50882bb9c2f0ea00b19aa
font_02_sfnt_off0001008d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1008D 19244 bytes
SHA-256: 19393edabc815d90d60915dbe4c166f4e300aae88eaa23f0aa39b692f9026c0d

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