Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 839cd6418bc70c7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:28:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9c27a794809495e7d7a08bb6ecf8d536 SHA-1: c14f43ddfc314c94e597147953ac659858a990bb SHA-256: 839cd6418bc70c7d2152ea9f8dcaa54b83b096c41928cf18ae6b9777c38b126f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/1885165040.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210522051240169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/nawozalij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/sozodesug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed763d569e---pedaviwasuwijejolebodoliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9fa6d97ed---walitujilumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/tuvogomewojowolijos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d98da077810---95600228251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811d09c02b7---guduzatotojipadumagomarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57d2cb4a132c67605940d9558d822c7d/mutiwuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da39a973db6969fbf828b5a590797ed/rezesufidifasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06c1a216e3---82511364509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a258990ea8f---10730617286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994e1684131---vetepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/40571906854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97024852ac7c80276531e286c3897303/23948291460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98c6976b06c947b69e413f643fe81c9/57567252446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veoguidecostarica.com/ci/userfiles/files/74103860952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viticoltura-enologia.com/file/bemosovedamaraxogesadabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a346bdd25---8402788854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/94797513483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leakefamilyreunion.com/clients/63964/File/bazasaxugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a110fe4380e---85794064225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cca738a0a91b6ffc404ff23ecbafe8b0/31549363182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designpavelzapletal.cz/files/file/47351554136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb41049b859---rubofaromidudusaxotumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+molecule+and+a+compoundPDF 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_off0000e9c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D7 10772 bytes
SHA-256: f2b5205374ae5f2d08c8ccd8e906af0fdc950939aa3b0b845da1f91675ca9eb7
font_02_sfnt_off00011a76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A76 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 3a687b01a77b244c8aebdd0de12269f1291dcb656305be3e31d3e3eb141654cb