Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 039dfcafa5e35ed6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-08-31 23:28:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6fc55bd1baaae57effdc00215b3e823f SHA-1: 6b9a7c96f238116ce1750afdbc52e9c69e9aa5e6 SHA-256: 039dfcafa5e35ed67fcca7e97df46aa28c42c2bedca679ce295e09291ddbaa42
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of these links and the overall structure align with phishing or SEO poisoning attack patterns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kl69na26loc4hm24uk3plapgap/60076006934.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/52338368115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/nutafewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/buloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694l6chbagmlurkbjodn5ghnq6/12319024830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8daf18fc28e34e650ac07ea69f7b4127/jujepufadigadinijelase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/790012566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vv80ciqmldpkslm8di3umdm847/13456099046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae66723304---famefewoken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careerroots.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90627200865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udm6pi2k4mmqf3005g90k65t85/10399772979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rajpuc.pl/pics/file/xuduwasebovos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/padigejazamemowupanowojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adc07e3be2b764208f5f3458a3dd9eae/76739885737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc61b9127e---35439486600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96acc2ff5e565ff8153e15bca263a7ae/bimitalagena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9015c7d7c963be22ea0a44cac0798392/gevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1bba0a8042---mujizupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39774998395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/sejelimavare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202108091132492711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/90256377465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071383d3b43a---66908928984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cities.com/blog_images/blog_/file/98425693489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=2400+mm+to+cmPDF 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_off0000e161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE161 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF973 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 6de76ca5c081fcd6375d4b38aa01574d91a50a079ca693ff1586b7e95c273ef4
font_02_sfnt_off000128b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128B3 9808 bytes
SHA-256: c72765cab8f789132c55cd702a044661ce61b2391a8a067e67c4b46553713cfb