Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 439b187a756f6343…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:29:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: abf67053ba220de0948a6f92103bd633 SHA-1: abbf66147c26a7d8cd3e4c84aa379284d3122014 SHA-256: 439b187a756f6343718a24df51d7aa676eecb82fc2094a720cac22b314c4c185
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URIs suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5af282c0a2---kufiroxirilotadasabufi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ene42me6iur73hgspqbkbo67k/kawegumarosujesowepetago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szcftz.com/upload/tokugenusonijusigadefena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28125666024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoldlaptop.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39133868812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/zetenalezisazeliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c81ee8518d---72334680566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/65462640420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/30791595491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19b9cdfc12b7bccdb8add0145630bf10/suzurifita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spcinternational.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukodobebofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1f7f53da8---80583129344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/pobofudapamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/92724350008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11981404626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/nitiketosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-4/20210804124632342119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.depomatrial.com/file/3787757963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chuyennhakienvangvn.net/upload/files/kikutivepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/411d773263fb1d0553c5c74640b29544/loruwimikadusajobobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc05475bd88---vorezebaxebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikitov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4775dcac4---35898178554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/badire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realestatespoznan.com/uploads/43951067862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=dji+spark+manual+focusPDF 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_off0000d8e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E8 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 7baef5ac3f55390eab7d446d49f45560c8a43a14fe0148def51c541e73edf4d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF179 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 7ca9b7a597c590219a701cb1478bfb13fdddf56e53885a3b7c707db5c72dffa7
font_02_sfnt_off00011f89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1