Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39a37c8a4ccfb29b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 02:32:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c0816f4840ffd58956ac1a3a5cefeb9a SHA-1: 612a19d4ad3432f261e8b0ca3c8b7ebc853a69c1 SHA-256: 39a37c8a4ccfb29b30743971cf5edd6c83e262081aab85f5ede52ebe4c8b90ad
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous URLs that form a link farm, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links lead to other PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage attack or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504050216199008.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/31558773293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec428257b25---dasizonasek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987818666df---5127675271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608364e2b1424---70697275851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/1590527399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773a5b7b9cc---93088015174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6c5515eba---torakubefodononew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/dexumefutazadifeguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d509dc2b08---1618396082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81bd396c682c161c25c3f1757a6e0123/59661693123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/56899144413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/tuzogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn69.com/clients/866038/File/23228010091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s94tddfi054g70qb76dpsptltp/wiguwitunusedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d3a7869df---beritomijupovifesula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076745972f43---67643913805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kavatogenuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nassagroup.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutadob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/14325748338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d18f4198c78---85427806919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/xasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/46090579107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cfa+free+study+materialPDF 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_off0000fa82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA82 17460 bytes
SHA-256: b58e5d1c82ed32c70c35c47e0e11955fe69c9e14010783f444a0eb8e6d77a65d
font_01_sfnt_off00012874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12874 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001408b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1408B 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 50c151d13da2888aae833269112f9485b11d2e4a32b37598f478bbe87661feea