Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39c9b12a7386c31d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-16 12:25:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 067db97c97d6c5879a8cc387310da7da SHA-1: 2ee9c7ada273dd4dbf5b97cd0293dfabcca47e58 SHA-256: 39c9b12a7386c31d4ab8e89e1dbdc8a3b72460af1248975342e243861d5ec940
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 storage and other disposable hosting sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4489dcbf2a5288dcedda5024b4655c7b/legoredumifujulij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/wotogejiwatijapaxatuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3l1qmskj25a8amo3qfcj63moc/21427749050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sofjl9un6bgp3r85tt1btfcecm/49334631987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azbuka-d.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74264587218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb00b73e9ea---farumogarupasoxazutime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42e3321c1288f6a934421987790c5ecd/mefenuduvulagojulajuseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728cc955cbd---gumogojemefofoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a0a45a65a35f3e1c908fdc01072135/wapesajelineguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41dc55afb2457f3e73afc20a203697ae/zaluxonigededavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087160707cbf---zikijegitosepokepezuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/75262632682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/wuwusavelidegesanobizuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/9193088270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/tejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4eb3af83a---sigopaxajojezevowedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/venetuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb85485041---pibuvefisep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikacarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/86160197044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/8145143416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f22649f2a---32482867367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rm1p926qv62dtachsgj0bdqek/11283300656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=one+time+at+band+campPDF 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_off0001032b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B42 10404 bytes
SHA-256: a7f6dadb753ef279e41ba3f56592de7c927a4013f0fc1e84f82db9126774e873
font_02_sfnt_off0001329b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1329B 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 0df08c28a4c1eb1012cac0c9ed0535fd3f1c76314d3d18d8908e9cf30d7407c3