Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39efd96830859b5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:15:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e8334c41d4ff81d5e5b9862ea3ca617e SHA-1: dba66742d35bc6293ebff08c5fa73b33bf131c49 SHA-256: 39efd96830859b5b61c397b668bff35ce9bcd217a3f6ed63d336c6f802e320ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external sites, likely to download further malware or engage in phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=word+to+pdf+converter+free+app+download PDF link annotation
    • http://burfel.ru/upfiles/files/66828218091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/69840662808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c37f214e10---16620211257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93e68d8acadfea4a21911cde95d750c7/10449986763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorinhawear.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/98992399896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3298fd4fb1fb7f5cef13a5db8adb3d4b/81475119985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de6175872d---79802205891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/tumarebododoxidad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8041acadb---gowava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.com/contents//files/juloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c24e1a8c02f---67369880073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/2185879132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/lifevazikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd6afc46d9---jepurefiwesamevipibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e46582206---44104877187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4a4fcf1e4fe57e2d70e4bf755d1c51/28335831644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b89a09d78d---warepinopadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/nixuware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/56684328912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/xofijiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fd8d5e92a---fuzikebozedupumamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117da29eb15a---90890331968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c691c49ef13f2e08405a1d5d12f4d17/2343401890.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cdd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5EB 20204 bytes
SHA-256: 726fc8a20c1d9dc1547fce22a4adb6a8315a666355119a20de3620965fea50c9
font_02_sfnt_off00011a43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A43 10500 bytes
SHA-256: c898c3f92c4484de8ca830218d13d18d119652b6c8171101b9d85e009d0c8028

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