Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39030d4f82aa9e77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-18 07:44:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 61cbfe2c2b0e947658e5560f5852131e SHA-1: ed3201723ed744097ad37c5c1e4e0b34adf52bf5 SHA-256: 39030d4f82aa9e77f6b88375938e4437b78cf1f85d6ac12d9af43c9207c8b90a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and flagged by an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content or phishing pages.

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://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/77445863363.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/67309199310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847d799051a---piwavenamesiwirega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/robamakukemiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/40142236115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/94480957206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53650f31161dc0b384accf77ccceeaf5/nudigiwafuduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a776460d904---zamunudupevoroziruwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a86be19fc02bc39c219cd408520377e/19371425553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/lilakanenex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/39480158613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/45615362377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c560dfa844b---bufoludejenamazipuvoketu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aec6ef86e419fc60a6bc019bb1c3c01/nimibunakaraboxudunena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45faa12ab7---75612789435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f460bd3d33---xopobapupuzowuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49fe830f9f26e5f5577535417d6db84c/49099584379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/tisiwifunuxezebiwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96362496374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4ddb5e751---zukibisenipaverura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5811d2abec---wibewimariruduwanurupono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050b620812fc734e7e2f985f66ff0d5f/87956196085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739ccbcb904---2303342407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+science+class+6+question+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_off0000e8c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C1 16528 bytes
SHA-256: 6f8a3e064e5e22c4bc027f36106fa1b3c9e0f5ae3c5b39f6bed00996c91a0af9
font_01_sfnt_off00011367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11367 10700 bytes
SHA-256: b8bdde2ce69f61042c556ddf94bb83e95f0ed03f1dc49e5fb804619e50356708
font_02_sfnt_off00012c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1