Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39d5701cc82d5753…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:50:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b23ab7d1bd69ddc40030ddfa49b5be3b SHA-1: 62021b16c90c861023676b0bc51d1132063f2111 SHA-256: 39d5701cc82d57537639e044259b6778f03f6836476ed37460114f6f1f0eb00e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the classification as a malicious link distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/50003442627.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://synfarm.com/upload/files/14336948542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/94570976742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cooperspick.com/files/19286668670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1adea63a57---zodaxurovibidofafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ca574510a---kegomuvipunesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willismctyeire.com/clients/c/cd/cd1fd5262213d36872a77bd42df049b7/File/gizixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8082dddfee4cb12c3b49b6747517df7e/texabusixojizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607489e76f3e9---84374268143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765f7a05e85---15657438336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/dopimorevan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/22578267376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tafipoxokewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c00cad8f6fe94c86e217bcaba4f57cf7/18213410169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runnersavezzano.it/public/userfiles/file/47762226127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rnralpha.cz/res/file/51972946724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckudzcssffhhj.handysociality.com/upload/files/semilugivokegedipofexizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/pikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edmaker.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65b4fbacc508afc434b1c88930692e68/49711057672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4b5po55p5plieas5fdbkks5s4/xedejonanuseviredap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t95127fve6i6k26o4d0sb4iqb/19259926296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=conversion+pdf+en+image+gratuitPDF 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_off0000d497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD497 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 0b19838af6e8ffe5269b437450a93021876901edc6ca35bccb4ffa6fa354f6c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE03 18256 bytes
SHA-256: b28f70c87d9b7649d470d289088148f4cfdd5ca615d7f4f14213a90c03325347
font_02_sfnt_off00011c01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1