Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39b94e4b5fa55810…

MALICIOUS

PDF

160.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:07:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 32e7181b34850af38b0c16dbdf654ca5 SHA-1: 3edc826c56a4a2c14b052f85caffbdb178beb0a4 SHA-256: 39b94e4b5fa5581043def4504ed74a330c55578ad795fced0e48dfdff4697f73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0', and ML classification strongly flagged it as malicious. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

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://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rp2jdb7717hdn1ok0afkk9nf3c/xezafefabizarupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15978638597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fa0b0aff0---gotozawejopetabiwixime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d241354f35e---91758824461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a90b21664---nuzifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dl9prbne9t6kfckkfthb2opub/zaxafusavimuvevijunexijiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804516f026d---43430677658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2189121ca---voxagijalidawopujakoribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ac635afa4---folasavenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/29659486357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9edf35579---32830895538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87503900153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a034e26c6b9---41818607877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eead855d2d---memivasamujuvonujivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070008357d8d---zejeponolemalugebavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/48492009441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8b10f12e8---mozekutilanosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/sinusaxikipovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769212de2db---72009632496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982175e59be---93253869582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/77120105631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/99554084796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/97130978431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b543f894f929bbe651004be7ae2ec81/saxunudetawirenukisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ms+excel+one+mark+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off000210c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x210C2 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 60b5cf5b28f3d592599465d5abdf7dfd1dd4852e1a07b400f744f38f8fff5745
font_01_sfnt_off00022a5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22A5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002426d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2426D 18220 bytes
SHA-256: a8da7c8d3373a6faaa9596ffb7aa985e54b7f533f0235c32eec16f0d6a981cc2