Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a89a40229a9d5199…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:09:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 94c9d076ce8968426dd1afc80b40d8a7 SHA-1: f7b46428a9ac387e1307e792846c72c5e7461fcf SHA-256: a89a40229a9d519953be09a211c178e4af5fad2d916c093c7be6e922aa38c977
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous extracted URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=switch+girl+3 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6hjvq8rjj37sq3ajuvi1ss1hh4/lunoretowilukevupepewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/780bac08f547eef4cb4f93328745a337/38083783727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9216f61cde---66568514697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43bqhjsm5alc6h8af491nht2u5/52185034515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtm6bj7gn1fg4q95jcdn1cg5j3/zarepolipoxebagaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp61.com/clients/e/e2/e296dcecfd7d10ffef0cc83fef253c72/File/23713150247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/sunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/bemasulolirokugovuvovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/30532068138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconartistmanagement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71413009033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/wijarubazusawizujuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/varegilapugadon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d61d0b73c3a8eec6486460f181a4447/xebipitukesozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mav-auto.ru/images/file/17677422722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2e7b890ef7---zadufidurovulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/pufali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d82e82dc7---zazanekagatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aisl369uomu7juhvdulgqa5oi1/90022888806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65422e48cd855d07fafe2e34614162f5/74939181202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709caeba37b---40471880636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/289cd6189d9f35118b9e6d5e5dba509b/98196350919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a7063d3606c7e1d0fd5f8215f8aab7/xutuguxapazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfcfmuouc9er2fkoiplpeuh2tp/4334598349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/61902611239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f67605d170---lawafafigijubitalarira.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e02a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE02A 27100 bytes
SHA-256: e544c2f8a8c095c5569396e4c20977db699b12b68ce303020c8ca47c7af5a3de
font_01_sfnt_off0001187e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001308f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1308F 16416 bytes
SHA-256: f1315216582f8e30f1ff34e454bf98f0ef7f6379cda63e6894c2d9d632c695c2
font_03_sfnt_off000146e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146E2 10156 bytes
SHA-256: b6a59d4e3e35a662a24d476b665b8a340b1bbb5baaf412266137657c24d32cca