Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f9d93583deb2e6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:58:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 39f26df1022d33ffaa5d96846c52e085 SHA-1: 6387300093a79897638907d9f92d07b06cd01c1d SHA-256: 3f9d93583deb2e6f84588946f21379ace49caf958b2b23e04a9905fa42165c74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to domains that are either compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://bakoca.hu/files/file/zawogoneridawetagenowuxeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/76147340170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c83656393---62163979100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcdpiti.com/userfiles/files/60589845455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolescuderie.eu/userfiles/files/84180988666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f769f238ad8---96582570486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4461753ae69dc5122a41d3f052cd87e2/66641901938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/lugekopubivinerewodugomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608afba0380af---35134377068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e3da656e51cdebc794ae523019f74e2/novagowiwuwelopusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3unpf7nr4j70q0sh6m788kiv1/fonuzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/89650549104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55028522494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sancheonglittletheaters.com/upload/userfiles/2021/08/files/210808103108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/dogodefifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.60km.com/upload/files/ripenoporudibagiketagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lighthouseofworship.com/clients/44803/File/5490310513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hearing-outlet.com/uploads//files/202108040844178821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twinmd.ru/userfiles/file/8223213802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k63huh3j49d4pvfsukjstqv7u1/31951508241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085de09cf904---jebaduxovodamutedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/xilivoduxinuzefikuwuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a6s3u5srneia0n94q75338t7j/40640058877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a6lhdvtj764nhm91n5952ffht/47235886137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607879b705806---wevokenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=la+coppia+quasi+perfetta+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_off0000dc03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC03 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 46de9011e993e8b4284201c551403d6a6a3710ed82ae1c783ff6b8621ea32071
font_01_sfnt_off0000f472.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF472 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C84 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 2b99b78244604d3172bc7447aa2855e4820d77d9a85aaa1d7e18a5d390ae4b98