Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 939ae919e01f6c21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:57:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 954d967be60a2ee5832291d5bf64a2a3 SHA-1: 4ef66d76426d9338096fe4c865beb2383147967a SHA-256: 939ae919e01f6c21832f91a620737872789530a9b5469efe191425d29ccc449f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The presence of external URIs and the link farm structure points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c46d7ee11ad8d029a4ff55469c960b98/32234943347.pdf
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730561246fa---fokexasilelu.pdf
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vtp0la9mpg7rkgam78gkf3q4b/90642706038.pdf
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/86238701061.pdf
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf908de8046---79262562065.pdf
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/muvatudirugejizedila.pdf
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81613516442.pdf
    • http://dwhs79.com/clients/15834/File/93168536918.pdf
    • https://reinigungsfee007.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rg2ut8qk6eellv8ovfif4v0ib/zijudem.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bb4d56d5499df88d58459a1f8c4327a/27600970431.pdf
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210616230155.pdf
    • http://chapmanhighschoolclassof1968.com/clients/c/cb/cb1fed5110c07f199f416a264ee6943c/File/denalixujijuvukanet.pdf
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13vjb9f90t6q7vrjg9htu0t203/kiliz.pdf
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb359a1fc9deca146257a4b1fe3edfb/20949402848.pdf
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f9c09620b68f7e7f41b7c1c23f4c77e/27087243789.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704093d4f7f---finesonivedejer.pdf
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46da5e9f83---63851787119.pdf
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/37805156693.pdf
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/liwafubezamilekakamel.pdf
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23u2i0jt52i6rmt9045toqdvl7/razawiruguf.pdf
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/86308372876.pdf
    • http://fotobambagiotti.it/userfiles/files/fugorakunilenarexaj.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicopetrillo.eu/userfiles/files/novobagirejo.pdf
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/rutewinatunogubaw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=wither+storm+command+no+mods
    • 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_off0001022d.bin
eb870e910d6ffb84499ea1dfcfcfbc91ab703ab70e70c25f712907062f2c8480
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1022D 10580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a3b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A3B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001324d.bin
d184e9187d8ca2d554a29188e8bc4fc31a8e11a42f0c7ed17aa27a2f7e29b593
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1324D 17736 bytes