Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39b0163a01cb6877…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:25:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7a5b4b64fc37f7dcdcc722b13a95e318 SHA-1: ef0e2e3f9f2f6bc4045a0e2df7666d96b6baedd9 SHA-256: 39b0163a01cb6877ef891a98aa4ee605d784151f8f3bc1730ca21d42c6ea8581
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, some of which are WordPress uploads. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://easybuildapp.com/files/uploaded/files/basabufiluguwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c78ba353bb---givudogobigolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6dfeb144a2---95823934288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096adb97e63c---24648502578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/dezurubovejejemusigabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4caa1151ff---41558584585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wifivezuwisatoxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangtaisay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/27743277663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20859201886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/libaveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbamantra.com/ci/userfiles/files/9901957418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/vimineda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///2021071993438_638383030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqssmlbbg73450tp27umhc8va4/50221382425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20210807180608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bd599c13b---84711224490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a84bb7f12---29154917664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/komisapotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8db298bba2---vuwapejexizowagidafaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/280042027926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/zekimunadagivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/70991888793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/tezazifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef53916cd1---11356715538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/77874358596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darienhigh69.com/clients/866565/File/xepezoxivanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=editable+text+box+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_off0000dceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCEB 19616 bytes
SHA-256: 54bdbeba1e33c7646842fe5f22f651a3814bfecf8c4e9fb56d4ed55312b4f44e
font_01_sfnt_off0001111d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1111D 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 92ee19fd64111048f0057e842f38e8a5ac958cb69a1409fd3328b5bee86e2064
font_02_sfnt_off00012852.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12852 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1