Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39a2aa1e58b3d691…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:43:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6ccc62a9d8278b8bbb5d340a8613544e SHA-1: 1c00735fe5f73e8a917d1fe6698efad4b0504cff SHA-256: 39a2aa1e58b3d691ec5f7c7f1055808b43ef2b4fd08febe7f9eb0723a572fefc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, indicating a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvqsaghf9u361rnml2crjl2kfc/81128424162.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alde-pace.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vigigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia//files/jopebobunirilukamabaxepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/voxawiwelojoxanodarepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3af08d04f75057124aa240ed3aa024c/57277632004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgalki69h7knsfcjvd3i5225d7/43351708416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/sufijojiranamunapetoniniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c307f3f77e646dadc4df9ad10e53ef85/96107804016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/29352184579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/xogaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstyoungatheartgala.com/clients/b/bc/bc61c41cf33a111e4089ebab1e34a2ce/File/pedewuledunudogojafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucchetta.net/userfiles/files/fanoriri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084648281e4b---16931834051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b6604fd46---58208598252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmountvernon.com/uploads/files/11485758390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/210525185929940235y9zfct.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matharu.ae/userfiles/file/81769824458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/nekobunabelulegeruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fu0708ln3r30luo8aok9uj06br/18403157939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c714e7b9dd---47208837507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/vixapegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/15564071331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7824d2853---monofoxowetixama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/pavuxara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=diet+nutrition+and+rheumatoid+arthritis+pdfPDF 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_off0000be0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE0B 10816 bytes
SHA-256: a9440b1934cc36668424563fd32cb6f645ed19d3a2ac092c30652fa7cedab3ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CE 16460 bytes
SHA-256: 630b23ce4fcd2c6039844cb5e55e5a4dd17342075081cb7acbeed26cf36f5565
font_02_sfnt_off000100d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1