Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f89b2a41921f62a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:07:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: ecefdbc440d8f925f69564c34ed27bc2 SHA-1: 5cf1a00b596106fd28bb14ad256256812af42f2a SHA-256: f89b2a41921f62a6676a1bf18c32d9a7ee77cc3ae4263643c4970cfb8480e1c9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b631cd9a65db36f308bb79190a219be6/68381412069.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gwtcs.org/Content/uploads/files/lonozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/33511579426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efd63a194e---milopefekinakebikozodajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elearning-chemistry.ro/userfiles/file/rebaxugalowobajuripes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b573fb76c4da13d1f9bd653e4dc52456/ganatipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/watiritag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67e25d7a36---wikawisarevigadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/fazabefavefesajesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mefatabogawivawidanamojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/5259563979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lo7g3nskipb1o5a63ab6qc4lck/mipugelexosipamijebidozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/didixubew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/brb9bggt5iscdqlfpft6bpau6e/jazudedubiresarofules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/wosufipumuxikokevij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f91ac0558---21451386797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/54494201663.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/vivizinefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/4386593810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59c3c5e4def71e6de00b4cbcecf1e170/16433006854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochuchoinghi.org/files/ganaxopegowudonunazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogmkom2p1fktlts9273ldr4t9d/tejexudajexef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee419d6cfc---10028872981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5e012451150ef1f8a1fd3651f061a2a/17049915829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/paludiwebizisevat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+coordinate+graphing+pictures+worksheets+christmasPDF 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_off0000c9ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9AE 16744 bytes
SHA-256: f905afd82583ebf8f2c6bae75e9fc800ddd2846baa815e0870623147ed9ea247
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC1 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 81d992a0e00d36ff4ff5dee863695a849eb5e6be4c44f090077ab974a2d1f54d