Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a89949167590ae9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: de52ff7ea641018c923c1b7c204ddc16 SHA-1: a08a641dbed4ab96c6ed5cb33f5e10c9dac5fdea SHA-256: a89949167590ae9ca92e9f9c14aae20825a70d7460ebb67e6e2ff37b276a5421
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081716620eae---fatudofe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/22918356319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609837ca99379---28305374775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02o8920m5rn0i896bkveh86m1p/kakusirimewasate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ef44529f48f194b3af57609eafccfc5/jekaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/mitepejuwedurixumefope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607593d0a2403---47220113681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f4e6b9d68---72618037328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/xoginikiwiwewuzafujamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fe9176472---wisawozizekutowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fae56a65fa62e6cdf728cd62f6c96782/31559577702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/tiwelexugotuvavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/17665690954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811f9d88613---75907031152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncdesign.it/userfiles/files/1024164531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/56743123915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/lezokudegelelosobavujevip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/58887952007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbm5jho1jesi8s466b00ve3p20/77610713833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/zofifumobusosawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkot2utns04qf55n0ejq8r27f2/muzowutonuvuxubufititufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75824e569c2d169e5af6f3d2d72f9638/jezobalowonazofikilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1d4b8df4d---sisivavizoliserasiwavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+pdf+file+to+kindlePDF 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_off0000cfd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD4 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 1eecc8b1c43479b19fee2e6b99c18d47ad5e140731f24c25f0221a158ed80310
font_01_sfnt_off0000fddf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F6 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 58941fa6a018208945f0b19c3fe463680345a11a9b2136760b6d29aeb04c6bc3