Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 239560ce834a6757…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:34:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5de0941f1768e2254c6a1a2347e10b4d SHA-1: c8e53efc14cb5043f62d481d6eecce13a831a323 SHA-256: 239560ce834a6757ededd7d2e3952ef96c62f617f0afc0b5910273cfcbd5ad16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these compromised sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58891878f0---12535369535.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a907315bc---xozedukeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609020bbd2f78---60362255318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/210f7a1135add5a14c6beda4e07dce03/kazinezilomejikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/lifefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e58421181f8---salemogifupokefeximam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a5847074e---87005461450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97407826657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/sorasazidokabugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitepurdeespires.com/clients/b/ba/ba703c466af5784ee38134b9d09df413/File/51974290839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7bc2e693b---38241926886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba6fa0037143b1f775d61d17f891015a/43842184097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.first-classlogistics.com/image/upload/File/dekexeduger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eec12d8879edf0179839924207eadeab/64277681093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/761708116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/nonikujozetiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a406752302a---voxudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff431d05ce---ralezadegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/gedujeperolofilowewikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083981806ba8---fekibevawabemegijezibow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murito.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6675119137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/88270038707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/fokeweliralikako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59420b01c7---69926626917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/873dab740f92125316fa8ca88cb1f56e/60548708214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=adjectives+for+describing+personality+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e1ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AD 11508 bytes
SHA-256: 4c9c7f4f5f5a7985faffd693a520742118144baced47713ca38814d3a3a47017
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC7A 18316 bytes
SHA-256: 9787b94ef9cb4d0b6f5a1265071ad4b804adc44acb83e91f115f2f51cf91e85a
font_02_sfnt_off00012b7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1