Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 239622ff5e02bc72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:03:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 97052ddde3e61701ce41238447a52c74 SHA-1: 09e6f0b90f994bfe29ee6f8bb64ffba937712753 SHA-256: 239622ff5e02bc72bc8c38b534f90e303e1f4f4dbf3ced69643dafc3a8758d9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to direct users away from the document, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=low+correlation+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://szemvidito.hu/sfwkr/feltoltesek/Images/Image/midexenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fgan5gm65lt0j2sl67aih0k7b/75397385976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7907abb59eb477e3e145e9f78f19827f/digumuwetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzsabegi60szallo.hu/UserFiles/File/momoxikubuxojebodamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncltandatbar.com/home/ncltandat/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowanezijuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/6968992494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghettaetamionarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/26412251119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd742c5d4550f5bee954c7e809927e1d/dutipenoduzowerapoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/554c28f9de7523ec4dab0ade7b12caf6/koliluvozukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/8740808557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/692534fac60d9915e934ddc30b1e1091/25740876431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/mosibugowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78e4874f3aac0cd93f3306e2559e463b/sijomofavixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangthanghuong.com/uploads/files/jemitolivopagukegam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf0f03b2618355d23d21c29613a8982b/8582776278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1day2night.com/UserFiles/file/92783752777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/12111081707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/tavidurajewavaravudifefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093de206e416---xotarunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c179918e0df---79361128546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pragatitic.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21205989197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f90c95ed1fc---nisajisakibimafiraguviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arh14lo9l8eee64fdjjitfjj9h/kegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98d109d62b---27419712634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziva-muzika.cz/files/file/wujowus.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_off00014238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14238 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 6178f97971e354f2e11608c7a21e439e545b65e38247c39fa144f67c17d0fc7e
font_01_sfnt_off000159e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159E9 21116 bytes
SHA-256: 5e86b8f5802fbefb4dd6197b5db7c9ec27a531cc0c56f952ece4f175f5a031bb
font_02_sfnt_off00019299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19299 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1