Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 939f22f03efb8bcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.0 KB Created: 2021-06-21 20:28:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e44c892144f38a03dc1602f3a4101569 SHA-1: 43b81d45818454872aa6c0578b721f9cb5421b4e SHA-256: 939f22f03efb8bcdfda1d23239d71d7b8c971fd4baee9cba71e7c39f2446b7f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to create a deceptive web presence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acf+bonding+machine+homemade PDF link annotation
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084138162ed2---kakaxetudiwaburomulopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd7g6euk1tn5ik5r60ften9ong/11514438652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/tememetujepibuxalibafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0e7b739c3b848781c73098a71e6c276/56795428071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/519697381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8461d98084---45677034639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/nuparolobadewelosasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd9ac0dd79a47adba52212c5b3b1ed62/50968024879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086963f90d0f---bazarinemofatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/doxekopesewewisoxoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcc2c1efeb---53822699828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab05c8709f1---19228599252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0713feb0924fd246d5775f14f64352aa/vejitolewafikujorigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093dee569a4f---3109221418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbnthpr3lls5qg3snhqar3jgap/matalemidateresaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5366348c72afd8388055277e71f752e/zewudukunok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eff9e29a67---62434755190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001a349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A349 2960 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8301a812e0963997f2c69c75bfd39e7fcc44359b8a43baf6657440e065e79d
font_01_sfnt_off0001adb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ADB9 5260 bytes
SHA-256: b76b637706712205a616db74b3205cae15fdc265bd4a153de4064c03dfb0b2c0
font_02_sfnt_off0001bf7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BF7C 12968 bytes
SHA-256: 720fd99a7b6d4a8ec59015de84935c919e60de4c6405a6c7cfc05b780efee916
font_03_sfnt_off0001ec06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EC06 16264 bytes
SHA-256: 04dcd56bbf957aa93796ae9fda329839aab9324c303053b87a3e085ad84d3c04