Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b89a10e6b7221fee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-08 22:49:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 20025e111cc4babd1340ab7a2da2754b SHA-1: f3f22c6940fa2bc9a7a67cad6ce3e9f342ee4cbb SHA-256: b89a10e6b7221feead5718e72a9ab142450455554cb18438e14852e327c8ecd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the primary goal appearing to be directing users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2081fb68d0---bijiturumipamelilukonuli.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad1225dbedf62413d5b00a9c6b1111b1/jopewejelerezosejubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610beb22820d8---35022964127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/66929228172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a02549320---49883867691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/48913095852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac25fd8fc5d---42281743359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/kukagotuzeponatedave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/17257012100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5cb7d5696e---mekazara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b3c0899e0---958131425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/pisajepepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084169257c53---vevovejizumexewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jp-photo.cz/soubory/files/57734462618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/jarezerapuligaduxiril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinkrali.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mekologigumakupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/23602604394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/vimalumeneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3ac6c4693---vogonusuwipagowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daba1be1549---73457023949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f60e5e958e---pelunaximokugixatoxudaxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/69108810829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6a91af0f14---ragiboketimupinop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.info/files/wopaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=github+io+gamesPDF 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_off0000f570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF570 17628 bytes
SHA-256: f5c4739387bc8198f27b17da8415157b255550c4c748a2246fa1b8281be82f59
font_01_sfnt_off00012305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12305 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 1306c8fc61ea41c8cd8027247ba0fc7b669e4bd0b8117cd0eff543560d282e0a
font_02_sfnt_off00013b43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1