Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39c72c74639e5baf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-28 13:37:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f8125cc2cf875bc5f1fa5cc6e9b3bc27 SHA-1: a1bf9ee6c9d385f4ff706b8c2cb5ffa72c0d6e2d SHA-256: 39c72c74639e5baf9e54d88380b0b6debc5379a2cdf4d72f3e9c37d1e6fb3e6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d37b805febf---71341806454.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da35eab468---luvarulurofinovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aceaf8c0e33cb901d689b68b81d7adeb/82264128389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53gvadk2crv8674vsl38ou8c37/14086713485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dd9972baeeb44834cca0a277e04ae81/femim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1b6219489---32720422517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ee73ed17d26837ae2676a195043c854/delelonokid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/60010925352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/tifowuvezuxafoloterimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d42dce6364---tuvegezofexapovozobopadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe8c7e4b33---wagiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/radenupowutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37308026375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbb9cabb981---6855537944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d7c63bc4c73bfbab45b9a43de0a6431/fekujuvenurinotofopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/penomovikulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/1214052250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/9437508480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubitanduk.com/contents//files/xizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngja57oc6phq211c87nr04kjj7/musovomojorax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a354cc2gtqp8njhehpkaitdnq/74165668988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff96a32cda937b58e435a7b2367e0fc/sipujujovapozokugufaxaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/843c33ee1ef7c368476c889f9e3743a5/farosodativitela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egv68l48gs4r90jd66e58vml5k/449004496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/subakemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+very+hungry+caterpillar+life+cycle+worksheetPDF 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_off000107b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B0 17212 bytes
SHA-256: ce08df716c13fc9aeec39b462dd519c899f7c91053683d386b1a24620f44ef40
font_01_sfnt_off00013465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13465 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 071e2cc0522edbd84fdddf22df12261a82e8baa9a5c49356e00ce9dbaf3b437f
font_02_sfnt_off00014e9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1