Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39f6970774787fa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:23:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3fe8b11228334756097001136c71b44a SHA-1: 7d05cb93ff75eebf04dd535e4a7f9f1ae05f78c9 SHA-256: 39f6970774787fa6046280c036f1edf3055bdd4b6c1cfec825094803193b2c8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host a large number of URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lockwood+and+co+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://japanbizkorea.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/vevegivexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5569aafa193daf1dff2daa8cfca8a48/fabibavedalazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1a8a415d51---25226823353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag9k14e2lq6m7bjdpl2145kr2u/jiworobotopeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/fobilaxivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d31d5bbd51---somiduzapezetikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgx.morefriendship.com/upload/files/47677645140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xdata.pl/app/webroot/img/ckf/files/2512590233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc5ebaf06c7551b8dea3c524d7f34355/13705134570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/xugejusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7123961aee458c128b123905e220f48/pizojixiwasagoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontivo.ro/userfiles/file/palopowor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eecb5078dac0ea73b65fcbe876ba902f/84069704216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aaa72c0212---topumetanazigozaseroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161045992a3a8c---repatowim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f044a3e07e8---86237173245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialgarden.ro/userfiles/file/lexadelufivofusigovuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c58cacd423---35566770123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/majivenovanatibuwaritaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3b1be1b292---35132235728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy2d.com/ftp/image/file/kavakedojabavisutub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/sikemikunanofoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1839021ecc---gizexixeganalorafa.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_off0000ba30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA30 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 9b7b893c8028980ed0cfba76e4072725c16c8d56170501080b9df1c1eb26bbfd
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F9 18812 bytes
SHA-256: bc8947da68330e9d0ece0f41c4019ffa6680752523c9afcf1e177149333b12e5