Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de89a93ea67b5e70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:13:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 883678cce341157c201dfd85cd2d9988 SHA-1: d2fdac240bb88e9d9463f395c25530152f57f521 SHA-256: de89a93ea67b5e70ebd20e2b3d0d4e584c3518484c78730f0da62490cc54dc43
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' lure further suggests an attempt to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210705083310.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/fenike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e8501acec---bivawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acae4d2db8b---sesarilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab21307fe6d---73236394304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tverzhilservis.ru/foktver.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27780730301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d72cf6f510e0627c382101fe9e4a42e/31154250171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3bc763458351faae82fe2464c6dc0a/lutotiropaditarafidus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab32b517197---zexopufifojabarude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/fuzobitijuvagupexikajizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pojlbn1736l225bq2nen3a3vq4/xejitefasudukazeriwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidwoodmachine.com/d/files/xopalebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c26bfb9dbf---24437728506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/nutasotixewaxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/24794395487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/96543061368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/48058187719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766e69469e1---jubawaxojelumiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziszolg.hu/editor_up/wamiridavobomifigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0r36uo4p7n2vihklni95bslpsj/musos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/50408157381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07f612b6f0495f6d50e410fcfc408b31/59290172470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5acea667306bf339e310d429d769f8e/29225255770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f9ba61b4c---zuwafareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=freeman+technology+ft4+powder+rheometer+manualPDF 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_off0000cd36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e548.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE548 17024 bytes
SHA-256: f678c0811ab9c91c17477ce54f450c33fdc4768a0da2d052ccde84242b12f0b2
font_02_sfnt_off00011167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11167 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8ce69d10f3aa19e4ec8eb88f2e2621c572261bc2ac10adf9bc031d15e3f859