Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c89fb6431308f29b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:17:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b67d76d73e3aec38468883b76a6bf9d0 SHA-1: a2dfa83ef2782af66751e02e5e2d5a84a6d764e5 SHA-256: c89fb6431308f29bfe91ab2439ec1513d9a13a814d6e0cf6578a2ef118ab4e24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious external sites via a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://mixmarketing.vn/upload/fck/file/tanuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afeba9f580af64c9b005d2b568e41242/46044625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovosluzba-praha.cz/res/file/giwidudijexaresalabivaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/galaxozozumupovono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907a460ba8d---xuwexare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a01adcaff---xaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba4hakt19vo427qdkecogq6o55/32809954222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/gafitimazezenoxabupejeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c02elf3c26epd8tt0cj69g41f0/46630293334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-12/20210512110739344619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9f6957ddf---88579432708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/79771542900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faizleathergloves.com/userfiles/files/salagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34ba5645a803992577fb31af9862fe97/lisit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fc6pfm95ccpaoner5rgl5igs6/sukatujawiworazuniduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e1b4c6e03---medugazagemoruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a722d3e51---34757147100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8e1e60d571449abb7abb9e2094c1032/32132228879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/83501962434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe17a9323e---vufadus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fredericjean.net/oplusco/file/sonedigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a16841dad651768f0a9ee121db8ba1/98213222979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5e752f4b1---pusotonobekope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=green+crested+geckoPDF 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_off0001174e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1174E 17356 bytes
SHA-256: fc59c28a3806efc7a5d99f077de025556249733c2862221c873683b207fddcb3
font_01_sfnt_off000144c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144C7 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 29cce0053af0dd6369b9ae65b6c800d1e7e5f63263ff3741b5cbd215ccc4d3e6
font_02_sfnt_off00015c3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1