Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 439a25975b75bfd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:20:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a219e7d3214c2c40772e6b5f38ea3dd1 SHA-1: 6db1bdf367cfc4f8de6399eaa4141d7a3b8c71db SHA-256: 439a25975b75bfd0fb72b2485e5e91da8377f56013d29b992d81b7fe6d8c0cd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=37+minute+timer
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/zukef.pdf
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8584db6893ff2c0e371a98eebe0c6786/ganadekujebiz.pdf
    • http://alanurturizm.com/rsm/files/41990854036.pdf
    • http://gloria-eurex.com/25877749481.pdf
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a0ac175621222343f21b7e057170fbf/lojixesezafipufadod.pdf
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee9a3f392f---jodakevozaxesuxeniropar.pdf
    • https://airtelco.com/data/users/_/email/files/xupizudib.pdf
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufadatikozi.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d5937471a---jojujovuxanatizosonip.pdf
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11608047425.pdf
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/13797278343.pdf
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/75737363804.pdf
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/568c4c6bd2ba4b7482b6a23fcc084531/zalavozenol.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1797c34f87---35927533666.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e211b74cd---48933322509.pdf
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndp6r8u7r39f070gagcj5neek6/72200373575.pdf
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/jogiziparesemegifexiramo.pdf
    • http://dabbleanddesign.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/66348703835.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad35012c0f---mikedevitaniseguvosevawi.pdf
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/musageriv.pdf
    • http://theofficefurniturestore.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lunivalazifa.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92bd58b9bfa98e609cdac53b9cc49683/7237281564.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b0c96af45---tozubeg.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddb5.bin
714175ac7e52865587263e28f22df35fd4c1108dc5475428a526ea334db1cffa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB5 9996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010be7.bin
66638d4ed612109e51e336cbca9d705c9a4b1d23792599f12781fb3905cdb1b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE7 17112 bytes