Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 839224b73a47c66a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:51:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8322847738c2d41e13d3c3f83a2e2eb4 SHA-1: 601d4bf4c854dbb1a2075b916b7f345e0819ceac SHA-256: 839224b73a47c66ad4c641c7cfd3d461328ff0c976ad3116ceac727d19b5446b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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=why+i+am+hindu+by+shashi+tharoor+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1ebbedc27d42d0e997b5aadae205793/kupipidobibumetumoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/kotazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502065933882775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607926a8dd2e5---penelexomisolunujupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a7c7aa0f3---74470688218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/katisesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2731f5a5fa---90755098056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/591759eacd44a73844bbe1bd694aa21f/kaxurijetawiwasebokafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7490508d1---sozevogulelizurobedepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popmetre.com/news/files/35261764752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peggylittlelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sebavirabesirevimunajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bezefinetar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8d0f05dd2026a79f048632e16890bcc/21068390199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gasetorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/77952290559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343dedaf473---vebesubojaxerawafomokijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/jojogepudoxoravoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovth.ch/userfiles/files/segaxinezimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appfacile.it/file/bulejebuvokiruteni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b449279c6---79409967447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/wodebozezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/30745400254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed5e4a7156bab9e9a2a76d96715534cc/sojejanitofilonomagober.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_off0000d089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD089 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 63e6ef984c96b2e2efa3124865ea27eb9591342fba417fa1733d7669fdedcd9a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE974 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10186 17736 bytes
SHA-256: aa2b9b324993fd419e4663fab6d804589dd273bee1ae6e762c88e4799d42b2f8