Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c89d7369efabc761…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 17:23:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b4c34e25799922f59ac9450b81bc0f61 SHA-1: 3a0470a70e26cd3fde3d6aeb78167246331855f8 SHA-256: c89d7369efabc76177036411baec50c413986ff2795719293a98a1c5724b08e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a lure to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=songs+to+start+the+school+day
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094634a21742---43894475790.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61179b6e5a---jemusuwenegi.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ee2a7d56d---borogitagozarebo.pdf
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bedasuroxekomakunoraf.pdf
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/6247150023.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/43788382528.pdf
    • http://crabandclaw.com/uploads/files/94298572220.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8094b85d7---1586094590.pdf
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d3b5okjdu7em3jk6vdnbncj27/risilifanewotetivipuwuri.pdf
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88122279061.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6d2ce1420---vajomumavokigokafo.pdf
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/6002656699.pdf
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/koxigogesivoxavoxuzin.pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n87qpv06iggs3o0f8a6bogj0k0/worojanin.pdf
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/61639406644.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736a585b569---89396647147.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609acc3583833---40583957612.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8eb08c729b---gasuxovajurenirewerudug.pdf
    • http://danfilenemd.com/clients/67744/File/72105901687.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b613f97e31---dopogotobeki.pdf
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20661218255.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0ca.bin
a21fef50678089716e2ba910b260e247acab4e2e913a2291a9e6051bb6f04b81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0CA 10748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f942.bin
76afdb8f992f03f306deacca4883a6e1aea804ec5c56090b012a8f501cb06cca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF942 16868 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000124c4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C4 16792 bytes