Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a89aa0c0c1946f2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:22:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 807a097e97a691a14cb4cdf6df58a13a SHA-1: d5b443bb694461e24b240f3bdeaa45ede7279a89 SHA-256: a89aa0c0c1946f2d1124552abd5460999268ca2a40308239f05968fde0a1f838
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF 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 potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links to PDF files hosted on various domains suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/sifilolimalosanubawefizak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/77053817938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutaylamhet.com/storage/ckfinder/files/173352815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7b13c6d932dc0c8e66022ab9c6ad5e6/fotebizidexutunezonowaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/86266499300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb8b747832cd7473ad2d4c3ea2291e5/30922100833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terredellamagnagrecia.com/userfiles/files/65213110074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-mit.com/uploads/files/19890881920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b478ace12ca---37640382959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da6e3b1cde---lanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newfieldclassof1982.com/clients/6/69/69e49ffade321d977af769e13f9f004b/File/tevujifesesikitipeforeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9876221bfd---xolimifudunugelal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdb3a6f140a---jukurebumufevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110acc671e1a---8660053223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/32679820045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/82426282465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck6jsl26iuddpju5r32dih53en/58530139398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/fitesapapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/6413427332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c31ea3b75b659230a1407848ae24399/12103429276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/71621704921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67985b1a359e4fd2e8731e7b70e9b789/zapasaluruwukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cf957f476---6825227088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuhlshop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/188836228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://27061010.com/uploads//files/202108091451311504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb4e738511593861b584245c679b1750/72335200474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=animal+tissue+culture+notes+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_off0000bf83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF83 16112 bytes
SHA-256: b720410ea8858a1f545851c0246fa0904d8b045297e6a58a304320bf3f38d7c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D0 10864 bytes
SHA-256: cc59dfdc3aa0a3e2bb489fa3a24e68908120fe8d84db061277e886ab4a5f665a