Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 739f491a72093ba1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 23:31:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a2de5f4283e175c5f95d1c48a85d873d SHA-1: 10a66b722fa961b8ca01e864ce07561e20f19573 SHA-256: 739f491a72093ba1dea27b87ffa5e81350e5ef7ea6212258b2b4ec3b5ff816d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to distribute malicious payloads or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+norma+astm+d+1586+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bigpictureresources.com/userfilesbigpicture/file/suxasawimamelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/42451709474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unesco-mediain.cz/fckfiles/file/totupupedekufobagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmvi3ipan06agp4ncma7dtta5f/zilagediwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsharqcc.com/userfiles/files/bevirusefekimabejemomebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6d9d013fb---pameganimulevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06126098df10e9c1c03db8591fa5d67c/tisikalovegeram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85b81c076e69e7529037e29e81357c32/22536032862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/99230999772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/99992871594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/xinejeviluvopiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4164a780e7---9218080172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea9c6119d2---53163811335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/72749668046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607787da20f59---23132532459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0506749fb---28820607473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0fdc674b77e021b1aef170757c240a/27264950582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607972cab17b9---20190165513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/biwususegopot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/44135504898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba29408fbd---83834673551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00403b709d9aad9d3f46f9a25770ebbd/23136881144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8e113f89fa71c72d7ebd75dd9c0ee6b/ramavuwobigagox.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_off000112a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A1 11388 bytes
SHA-256: 00308629df107b4899074cd5cec50767966967bf305bc17070a48c6b9dc4fefa
font_01_sfnt_off00012d66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014578.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14578 18736 bytes
SHA-256: 10dba2183ece93964140b8de4c79b22e2feeb5fc25b205a03d5e46d1f1ed0e38