Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39ee2f8f1d92de39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 19:28:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 12d09fce545bee618537971177e2219c SHA-1: f211dc8f9af51cf7e6ce377242b9d9e7bde2c2e9 SHA-256: 39ee2f8f1d92de395fd574c0ad5461628b18829dc00b73479963e9646d202706
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised websites, directing users to download files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting further supports a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/9235170260a8e99075325.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/778f8cbms3u22qti33md5g6837/44697824565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c052c4a425c9abb8c8d4a035296b20de/38185660908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b025a9c7268---19528232529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/33044820444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3i9omq33n60gnb4erk12f9rol/jitonuminujexuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/51009753190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e95868eaa6de4a2bc2c3b39b6d81435/86777216540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/16909483819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2709de1d2---nejexepegepujejefiweriwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4b495faaf---doverurefelegozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/rexakugagitutowelutopit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/98936449286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/jalinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e25b9fd4f919bb8edd1fe6ff82473058/48677223453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/65133770801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098784be4484---reledesozinixudobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60dm4u2st30el2berbflit17hg/15559817303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089053d60649---82790662934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4a5c1539e---29788226746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=icse+foundation+mathematics+class+9+rs+aggarwal+solutions+pdfPDF 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_off0000d3ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3EC 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 548b5367f566cb18b58c2da41a660f67193b2bd941408375dd902fa9799a1ec4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE65 16580 bytes
SHA-256: dda9ac0bcc40409815565d3e1df59566afcd5b2dc9a93d2eea41cb67ebe91f00
font_02_sfnt_off000119a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1