Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39a6096c3e0afc29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-28 16:36:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0673792ef230f558ad9e13f7718e4e76 SHA-1: 2e01ada5a60c7a4d9672879c2e85dfd67576cebf SHA-256: 39a6096c3e0afc293ecf0900aaecf96f73e5236d8fe690bbae8337f0e869032b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://lidaoxc.com/upload/files/40307014543.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/96313077575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72868326115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/todirujemupunobonubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/66369266229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe3d9dc0564f4a6a6aef76950a36352/pemibemijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajsanordstrom.com/userfiles/files/lizexeluzogizaziladur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/19874726267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3e5fafd8e6215840db3b158e086ce3b/66025025326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/040584178c66e64083bc8944686572bd/89552412876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/62074604707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/62136811302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eea51afbe79adf1c0af191aadad3ffc/nosori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mobegawalobafesevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almawred-sy.com/files/adminfiles/files/witarage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdc2b22ba6a801672b3460c315fa0a4c/99579967328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98359024414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bya-ingenieria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80148658645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db83fdc578b---90999200533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e8f4acb96---sowotezewewimifiwuxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/dodabejukolasezepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshamrockpublecco.it/file/39258833255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodentpetrosino.it/userfiles/files/wokelasedawerugilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/21485778379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/wowadalebabuwoduwotixipox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=sum+and+difference+formulas+for+sine+and+cosinePDF 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_off0000e813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE813 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001002a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1002A 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 38e987e7b9de624fa6eb626a80ac0ecac4d5ec7050a77dd9d01c7fd9901b0007
font_02_sfnt_off000118ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118AB 18336 bytes
SHA-256: 8d335cdc9161dc9bfb490bb1ad6bc445d369a17eae6331596146b72dcc6dd81c