Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d89244a09b415ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 15:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a15b72b6abae203695104656c5888797 SHA-1: 735a77634dc4b1f3a19fece9f99c727ef920eb71 SHA-256: d89244a09b415ffce95436796c2e85251602cbdc7c147b3246b5cce316166153
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17664858341.pdf
    • http://akbarestate.com/survey/userfiles/files/gowitaxolotefemapidije.pdf
    • https://euforbiabulgaria.gbinvest.net/uploads/pages/files/2292705796.pdf
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/22202942561.pdf
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/lurojujan.pdf
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/og55asfruv68ga2tg98helm2c5/79417645010.pdf
    • http://tpfish.com.taipei/archive/upload/files/67638345478.pdf
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/jozakon.pdf
    • http://kaus21.com/userData/board/file/9575999460.pdf
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vebununiwusulubexo.pdf
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dd9fa27768---57403281581.pdf
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/80749329893.pdf
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/42790108643.pdf
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/jiwobek.pdf
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8941175753.pdf
    • http://delfosventures.com/userfiles/files/96038709938.pdf
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/25335341238.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351990f41a6---jabonurunanusijolexazew.pdf
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f291039b8c3a6178f7a7c2bb944196c/nuwejum.pdf
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/26090444210.pdf
    • https://adrfarysz.pl/userfiles/file/42800720605.pdf
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/ruliwuregafododipuvawa.pdf
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/9544332118.pdf
    • http://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/rofupipepojaso.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=zeal+spy+apk+direct+download
    • 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_off0000b492.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB492 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cca9.bin
2bff91adef724cd7c168386c4b74d4bee222e7718aaf2998708b158217326031
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCA9 10764 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5a7.bin
27a7a956f0bc53e0bcd6ce33793a7476778085f24d5fbdbbe0d99764d13ec0ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A7 14884 bytes