Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39aec30976e8cc94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:21:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3ff35e666c13272ac009b0316060767d SHA-1: 40cc4482f3573ed6ec66b7e1e09b33f1c7df9516 SHA-256: 39aec30976e8cc948641be9ad75da6cb1e1e3d349385d1cf1e3a34a3d9eb3ae0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or redirection attack. The embedded URLs are likely used to lure victims into clicking and potentially downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/14768110066.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/dajukubojoxujibumekabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/13043847977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/59423351682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a74d8501a0---42411153438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhic3o9chnhb7qdvgl6hkfk1np/guwijewufozivulumutok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843f8bb90e9---55470629687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/11474212280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56deb4160611df09f098043fa322c900/vilasixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/28779174649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed4799995c7e27642916709a7fc57fc9/15291638953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wf515345.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/gazovaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0442194f6bcc0d3d3d9ab8ccd949c1/gatirelesotunerigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/38816940597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57044667761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e25f2b6388---ruwitedodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mtohhdr86u0k63m206srb8qof/92092271630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c6700472b46aa959847acd290c337d9/fowakebovetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/rulowisinetape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2da57bfe0a---dupojisefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestinoequitacion.com/imagenes/upload/files/zeratalebutefipol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/64989018348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4gs5uqh9dakbttcopjf3q6p0l/91756407924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/nagowesejivaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/16488770209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=what+to+say+when+asked+what+are+your+weaknessesPDF 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_off00010ceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000124fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FD 18496 bytes
SHA-256: 8f0dd5ff264a3803f122cb8d0b743642fe3ed61e0243e4fd6180c7a305c391eb
font_02_sfnt_off000154f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154F9 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 57643a6fe3d897e8407c4cdfb186c72535b25dd8cc3ad9fa63833f8584c166c2