Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39f46b5af04f68ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:06:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e00632684f8b4df2be1c1897d90d9c25 SHA-1: c039bdbe98cd7ca989a11c5b781fd5c997c007b1 SHA-256: 39f46b5af04f68cab386d62e94c5ac907dafa17dd7443040a133be851b2dc615
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hatter%27s+castle+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://laptopcuhaiphong.vn/upload/files/zagofizemigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/51942698807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42038ddfa3681fb3d0e9ded84fb1dc69/kizabakududuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/92302951634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topflexsports.com/uploads/jexejinadurorovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/jijumevalaminuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18573a868e---pudejakemadavamelomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8013e8868---76150671609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce580ab8b9---lutosorugipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/21644664825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7972dfb1085642737f11a31ec046e404/68636798294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785c38be524---zononopafunizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/76556602546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f3ec1d0f6---5124279597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e676d69cdcb---80855825415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://035620126.tw/upload/greenkitchen/files/57945347143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/xuturubafepanogor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/86570821676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gidezebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/23084363052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124e3b749347---56282309538.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_off0000d403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD403 10324 bytes
SHA-256: bf874ceafefbbe5a9aea9bbeca2ddce5a53d7ef73b41e85e0d9f341aa7744cbc
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB6C 19064 bytes
SHA-256: 84b8f5bf689b200dcf0912a19f905716741d147f9f534f772afe0f4216350f33
font_02_sfnt_off00011cfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1