Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39a908aa48851a49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 16:37:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eee17759fc5e1d5ad3d9534cf2c08042 SHA-1: 896550ecf58c4b420b09ed6cb94a11b9b6dc9c4a SHA-256: 39a908aa48851a4938628ec0df8c23bd0f5bccae0c15179b8184c34d60533a4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, a common tactic for distributing phishing lures or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the link farm structure is evident from heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/72291677834.pdf
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/841dd570366f716a097ce7abba3b55cc/xofopikenob.pdf
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887a49536f4---sogolerasezunenol.pdf
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b072840cc071e09258fb6d091a8bcd5/40732900745.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv7phhj4fk1ucqldegcarc7vd2/perisi.pdf
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu8sspdcdj818ep0ii6f6irolm/zuperavatid.pdf
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sabetevoku.pdf
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb4c2efa2197f3592f24aef640f655a2/33582325438.pdf
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/20837097378.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca9a783435---fekezevamewobixegise.pdf
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0c6a87c806b9562e95743015e9af65c/53117196386.pdf
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25148879799.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50ba2edb99---jagofo.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f57f92979---kixaj.pdf
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ac4c08cf901ef0a076d8d98f29200ee/ladesozonewepeja.pdf
    • http://sampsonancestry.com/clients/d/d9/d9bd9208c4e45de01aa31840e3a8c66b/File/patolexurodun.pdf
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/24813265630.pdf
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607334281effc---30792466958.pdf
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/3879725558.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjqr6gstodsqvvlqhf9knbk6pi/gefebezufevev.pdf
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac48e5dde98---lijejogorofipirup.pdf
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog//file/72651313170.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=heroes+of+the+storm+jaina+build
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fc8b.bin
d8153887a0b754e72e48994c19d46a3926f1e37480ba3554040b409d04d97c09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8B 17228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012984.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12984 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001419b.bin
e440ab59831370bb20077641748888827749b368212ba772677bce8fd8a79dcf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1419B 10980 bytes