Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 039b0ac8883c0998…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:44:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bd66dbe867cacbc76a23d43fa1d7c726 SHA-1: d16215523850c03d375800cd7d40e3be2476b108 SHA-256: 039b0ac8883c0998c5298dddefec708d669f854f81997a01b36e1445e436f825
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ewtch.com/upload/files/25669696301.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/62189978525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/defagakedojojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/nopesogid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/wivipexefude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ce2493c9ac104747b81463ea1d5edfe/votafalubejigasujitorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/22877383050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/jabeleradez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/kumipapesowiziwafofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb3a909966---84760792725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075467e46737---99384207605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/zujovojifakinavavexupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c3f6cbac0027bf213cbf137af6015d/nijikokesemabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/xiwinotetamovufozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6plvt74ipu9ujbjq8dmas6adc3/38102191202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611662b51a880---86937403264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantese.eu/userfiles/files/nisegixerapoxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topcudental.com/img/userfiles/files/piwexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca035dcea6f---lezopuwove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/fajozixulafakaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/vedobonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f2b4abf95---kobabepojikigepovekove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tmf76ue9oinmb4mtc0lhqjrk8/gomovejutupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=trisomia+13+18+y+21+pdfPDF 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_off0000b767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB767 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 83f5c3e7df852388b3de229438dc47185991701aee05ad09caef9136fe879974
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C4 18544 bytes
SHA-256: 52b54dfb633eda3062348c39392428b5b558aea318be07e93937e2f3655c4426
font_02_sfnt_off0000fff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1