Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39874d9bf4ee8b6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-08-10 13:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a900c15e71fa0081245cb2903c2dfb35 SHA-1: cf0e00d1adbf1e06ea757d9389f4ab9a5f6dc95d SHA-256: 39874d9bf4ee8b6e2d1b5e24d91aa2c0b3399743d8f419ecd794f30c289f7d34
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, suggests it may be used to obfuscate malicious links or perform further actions. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=positive+comparative+superlative+adjectives+examples PDF link annotation
    • http://monarchiaerembolt.hu/tmp/bulikivepiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/70884672564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca5554bae9ef416f09eff0e56ecfc7c6/mapidegiwazubeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenld.com/userfiles/loripim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartdeal.pl/files/upload/files/refedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/77300020742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/polutiwujisekabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccff2f170d---setelizojateki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eldmsh1.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vejewejomenipimalowomidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penney1970.com/clients/7/74/747debde904cce1d9d58e62e9103e361/File/xikudoxagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/704e697936b83a6f7001d8f4ead9a2a6/97771544176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqgmu83mkradvjhed4dm65ol82/84625159655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbc-bezorgdiensten.nl/upload/30637769646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-dvere-online.cz/media/upload/upload/file/lofelosivusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d806e2f8712482bef94ecba4e5d246/28595332339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumkin.ru/files/files/89697218338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de5e1142593---85592400918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16096d88a9c5d0---51769424112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezoalza.com/ckupload/files/josibilezade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd3830f3efc---68308910033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5af2728e470204bba49a4b42e65ea27/bifijorifemujatavigejenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a141bdfb70---73728230882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/solubexudugagifo.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_off0001022b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1022B 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 54e1f91bfd7020f92a4aa07005966602e010b42dfea79d20bf5f659a8bf79a90
font_01_sfnt_off00011baf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BAF 18188 bytes
SHA-256: cc1e9ebc5c988e950a74219884f6134e8dd60d035149b58a8072c6d57db6fec4
font_02_sfnt_off00014b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1