Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e89b171c8c2551c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:22:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7dd1d53f49ec33c49343f8cd0459f0a8 SHA-1: edac0a126ff28667337a661979dddfef54848d3e SHA-256: e89b171c8c2551c101b382bb6646a351fd9f2020cafdbbabf2257ce5df3fe503
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it's designed to lead users to phishing pages or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a573c373971---61360871208.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79a3e7c9115acd47249fca40d7209f79/12243953351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/vowixabijulilufaxude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83554618952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elyriacatholic1970.com/clients/7/79/79c6984f8945646ae1b55d50a6b4dbab/File/24769297191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984630684d6---jebexugilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e62fba414---medagomesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad2f742d28d539c4e1714b8023e6441/merinulamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmic.ru/sadm_files/tulosijizuzuviwelalojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd2256ca2c---koxudepikefojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7d6543208---ziduresetotarewupotorejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexvp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/janenuxofasoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents//files/58079411819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/lezisemimuzamuvovomiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peeweeslearningcenter.org/clients/5/54/545fcf94abc6bccf175f3035c740e6d3/File/wevifokerotexedamaron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/xevejevutazufubawiminuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/38338209514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5dkdtt9rh5et17df2d2dubeo0/85205651729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bb9a98877---30362996575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021062592337_678289049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c241474bd9---54068128842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headrepublic.pl/images/files/volirixuruwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc2017ff09---jepuratafebivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b586257c236---30050022837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=apply+for+co+op+housingPDF 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_off0000fec2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000116d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D4 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 0f10ce019191d5b39a670a2dd18a1c23b124a1f8d1da2599c4b223927627c416
font_02_sfnt_off0001452f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1452F 10564 bytes
SHA-256: bcdd58f3f78203b001cfcc7d1e40c4188236f46da714715b3d8be4e5ed7926a2