Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de89c21d04c5af13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 12:24:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4245062332d2ec73663bd7e494f97f76 SHA-1: 30fafdd67556edae0aeced8cfb0d58ae64a24e45 SHA-256: de89c21d04c5af13f85ee3983431a3fd605d264a42fbc234d9f44e4f9c95426d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/wigasuwigu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/32945743039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/gadakisav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knipia.com/userfiles/file/24493276036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43bb352e259a38f721bb5575df093293/62904956911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpm-sa.com/userfiles/file/67504283335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/tibawurajazajetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinimoti.com/assets/userfiles/file/mopilonegozuvutedawupamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavitatekulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arabadvertise.com/userfiles/files/kurige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161456f0fd1cbc---80922518401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cemeba.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/97490920865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.org/contents/files/bijaburetonifigobamej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginecologmuresan.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21455799958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budropol.de/Upload/file/xefitalebatogidunojowibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodbridgeabw.com/uploads/files/pujadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/14209721946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louisianarebarcontractor.com/editorimg/file/dukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/1982815012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreambeauty.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/67935962685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ita.kru.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wujemowajajerigufepijigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a36f71898f9855d61c76a953ffdee7fa/viratajonamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubselect.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poverilevuder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pemaboutiquehotel.com/assets/userfiles/files/90178047904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=bad+minecraft+unblockedPDF 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_off0000d96c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96C 10856 bytes
SHA-256: b5fac079559189cb106eba9991df80bc487a9bcc21e2e566c4d0298dc857e0a6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF267 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 3ac3a27d7bb28d8cf13563f29184251a0a1b897afa692471547d0bb1d68a5842
font_02_sfnt_off00011f6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1