Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39d6610dbb1a4020…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:12:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: dc4cb08024d0ba4e272af3dc3a0bb3b4 SHA-1: fbf4a9f19722b30fbabd8bd911e518cc00331416 SHA-256: 39d6610dbb1a40209ae2f72a77e6f1985c10a907d755a9915f44b10180d0559c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9839

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.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5e93b6e11---gesasulibapaxofixuka.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/82801046055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607235589a1dd---javebumiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l546v2tn23g57kt22ob48r55q4/siwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c64beb951---wibogologebexuxejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e21b28317f---91599345456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/gowesirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkf75g960viq0agvip3smk0tf7/86194657974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db627930a6---87801918519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93be1c0927b535e1f61b7a1281bffae6/repakekadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073918de1be1---pebonujubaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgldhcn7km2pkgnpdpesbqkuhn/gidiporiborinuliletixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1c0315fce---salamebumabasisirarulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imkf9ig25t0vpf4cbb2hq1fu23/17698929985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kt68uns3c0ib0e6sd669p111n5/19160000555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/getejaperazarugewoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/zitikujataxulobumepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/gamepaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b51724a5be46bb3e9ddd3a0bae4307/remefiziwoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d4cd2dfccf8c765f50ef61fdbab280c/83437608523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a453683766b---fodisiretukidusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=broccoli+chinese+stylePDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/xujulimelusamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB04 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 5786d7639d2cc1522a1a3889fae5b5c9fbcbd5f5c9de2f5a2930a0e54327038d
font_01_sfnt_off000112a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AB8 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 9030881582dc7079ba8e94a6896595de723ee52b75630eb428ce553284faeb4a
font_03_sfnt_off000141ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141FF 18132 bytes
SHA-256: b6a969110917f7e071e13bca3f508c050717886376991b61ec92d534972a6639
font_04_sfnt_off00017164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17164 1824 bytes
SHA-256: 065c7a4f11f9e75f6e8b37807bc82b370f7b2846456f0b3b832c619392bb01b8