Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e89db02660a6bd95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-10-01 20:10:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d7e0eea0a23cefc24fa202e3951c9a2b SHA-1: b81d01df55a93826a1be61e1fc792797877e5fd6 SHA-256: e89db02660a6bd95f2771d40f22df3db71a186e291332c01c90d382841fdd7c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The structure suggests it's a link farm designed to obscure the final destination and evade basic detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=microsoft+office+word+android+app PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sibirprokat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50336603857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/635eab446d27a47415de6fc6646b229e/roxupobogowutibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosanaalvarracin.com/userfiles/file/58186974030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi2.com/contents/files/83968909819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161469b5f7372e---60158570199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kstraders.com/userfiles/file/misulego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unaizahic.com/Files/files/47979400914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bladensburg.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/zuramuzenisogoxome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pactolous.hu/upload/file/gavobarimilogopuzebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/livupope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6228208885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/ridojujojozapejupukamejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437f6d5b9ea---66889588992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casaalu.com/luutru/files/90157661126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfozyayincilik.com/userfiles/file/88832001325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shibbirs.com/media/files/87007328762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-test.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109171630475945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/2124682318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f1d58307f---galawolajorusilojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ddb23a9dea---66498558963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/97162225269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ada8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADA8 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 2e8dae844fea78e949fe9df85449510d1d85f04a81cf0e43eca9d46d304f8cea
font_01_sfnt_off0000c642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC642 16044 bytes
SHA-256: 6e5e4d121754d8be0a2efd99d0acf317e80aab12fffe19b378259a54d0d5827e
font_02_sfnt_off0000eecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1