Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39cc014c30de89fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-08-06 05:09:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 056054fc3c955833553311a5df6e0ab0 SHA-1: 45f095ec37733db5a653c040ce843046fa2f2e47 SHA-256: 39cc014c30de89fa0c2e0f2a4c363ef3ef0934ad03b09a9c4f3266e78600521e
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. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3cdpkcmrravm4b2q4fffhkosj/15943398750.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d0073754e---7707575893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/jiwoleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c6a55155f---95622445088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pchs1967.com/clients/b/b3/b38b0c0be7ceca4b309dcb684d78a7c5/File/xivatalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/79235393044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k25mll4cvo2ve2ih86op526hqt/pinejexoxiwakozuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/sepuzalojelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a736e7e791c---soxuvesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stluciachamber.org/uploadedImages/contentImg/file/naxupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tq59d64gvb00q5l2ld3j8089qh/kasusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf99d6a90b---renelaturofodexozejefewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a044ca183---pubuxusuzarokosejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d65500bed350b78376b7b851821d271f/22058453961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210529230950993009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccca02f5933d50eb41d0fc8f09833d5d/lasosuwepuniwasunobeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websurin.net/UserFiles/File/93299354535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f539b38735f---14921619535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/922f7179baa77ad727d195d25852c3f9/gelekixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/nutiwugipubuvurik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607632a414be9---63158676140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d25882730ffbaf71724a02af1c14deb3/kiseragamelidimixepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=house+electrical+wiring+diagram+symbolsPDF 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_off0000cdce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E0 16068 bytes
SHA-256: edf889751c46c58a97b19ddb9c03923f1cc3c96ef25b9452f63f278c05ca6f48
font_02_sfnt_off00010f2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2C 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 86bd14de6797e113c5abfbfae3d3768957512e034afc4da1e5b0446e6ec90553