Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39349583da46056f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-23 11:52:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0143e534dab607130e4485a5e3a5174e SHA-1: 0d824875ce235d3f21b240b1775fe1d8716c0987 SHA-256: 39349583da46056f75a958ac68d3714c8d2608bf1a21ac331e4684adbc30983e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially distribute phishing content or malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zavia+ashfaq+ahmed+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bab5bbaace173753c5499a0b2454791/45867026031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1dk3uu5gcujm5dieae63h3i8v/55715560317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/rinaladureguvedujerivagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dolaubu4tq18vmb68ijroorta/sejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3450d0ccbf2e0336b4e8e079539fd67/62228118117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8468badca60662a4b530c6f3a3b1fe80/pizowebawurevafazibasebos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a15767e324c24af0a6c56291f7832f5/juraxute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d66ca5a111---12147946079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/xuzafizeregifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810dd6dec66---lagejopugijubepuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3m5geg76mgcohgq6q3gn2pj18/zokefizerigorelamaniti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089814e65bef---4831683198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/jafepawuroxefavomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/35928593167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/60421408311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kafifokamaluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92f806384---52065402433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c743eddc5---jefosenevebiteji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off0001143d.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1143D 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 3c14d222e102dfd08afccbf8207ad2378e5555084baa4628a2f91591f65eb663
font_00_sfnt_off0000de0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE0B 4788 bytes
SHA-256: 76cfa0fd9c18e11bde0d6d36da264e2557a7e8707aee7fe725cd8fe45883b0bf
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE55 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 6475f136f2932c42bd3acb4e94a1f5ee8bb776746333a31e4a1cf82160c78e9d
font_03_sfnt_off00012f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F2A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
font_04_sfnt_off00013d2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D2A 3544 bytes
SHA-256: 09f788e2a83cd7cf953a41dd74ae88cabfba3ed6c385c3dea42e3ffa7177506a