Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 239ab7f538e8529f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 16:09:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9495f80162f59a70034e62dc3722d96e SHA-1: cfa1ec285737987215a885ccd98d28d2ef0b0ced SHA-256: 239ab7f538e8529fd05869c18234035ffb4e4bb4424a1578ddd6bdc0ba5a6d5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/vosawule.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2337e159accc141ceaa6aebecaa569/58524619429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f9db91a81cf7ca4a746888aa7dbb1d4/64718041217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/zisoxomaxiwufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc7d13dfe0d79570179abebb108b9e5/ledam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a29306cfd---9511087732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092547414330---44813025096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriciobanados.cl/upload/file/In PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/8598521243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69ea4560ea---15743590123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d0d7c3aeeda63db2c4c7d23d4615219/16504218136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/bamodeguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b299b167d07---durifibitegizusexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/126bf85ef419c98e0a465d3946391d87/dusesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a10i6u0vvbbaj3cusmhpoc6hv6/wufabojusukaviguwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-drog.pl/userfiles/file/kokiritopakajunosobenilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4777239fa---vefus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d868dea0e---65768793585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f6df210761c8bc82da49fa82eeb6902/dagives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ad4ecb56b---zigiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1v99ifkcs6kbsi1amksgnctub3/41433846050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/lemaninaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/33341864201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d12c715023446b81860668b193611ea1/4675848581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cd35c8c7ed61c785d5d2906b3d4f1db/19201468766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=brain+games+images+with+answerPDF 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_off0000f89c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF89C 10528 bytes
SHA-256: bb67675a2673c2d5fc6e820fa40b67ef21ead0238b3e8e34c9b0247c879e2263
font_01_sfnt_off00011072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11072 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 648f60f2e3c1eb910793b58f39607216b07cc3938f757e50060b513675788b34
font_02_sfnt_off00013dc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1