Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 939f6e0ff750138d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:31:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 04818594fab33a7b0779172a6a8e326b SHA-1: e367a8f2fcf2884c7b205895b391483f72d207cc SHA-256: 939f6e0ff750138d51bc8dd01cb3beee446b1da277ade2dcb2234c3ea508b050
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, a common technique for distributing phishing lures or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable text, suggesting it is designed to be non-transparent to analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://alummaswaja.com/yii/sdbalikpapan/home/images/upload/files/bowamu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5h8abksu2o04iq9estcuu8npn2/dokagolopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prpfkil1htskusosb6gtsqjqba/lakufatogumamabeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servicepapik.ro/files/5168989160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67273064511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balmbeach.hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/55600051957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a5058f36ec6e632ca1853ec2b03bc40/41223329301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hospitalityroyal.com/upload_files/file/vuwagolusezijekakogevado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simsvizag.com/contentimages/file/mogufapogubopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef57d127f9---zixurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/88278818860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff0adebc0998dae3694068cd3e6f421/23749432810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htk2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f73e4ba911a5177b2cdb00a8650c7e6/36282766426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/3493243444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/97114561839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.it/file/gobuluniwabigagivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ecb8b86167afca72ed40b599c66f76b/puvizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artedelvalle.cl/gal/files/file/xikevidijimejarawobaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f88875867d---89430653186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandinavia-ex.com/images/blog/file/rijekorepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/tudalumabitelawibesobopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-saikung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wileperuduzifovowibivagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/pazomovivodamejevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/29239190040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=aqua+park+io+2PDF 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_off0000bf27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d73e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD73E 10136 bytes
SHA-256: dfb94299857db5f6e0a06675168cea474afda971d7c9555249b27a8b4a277c9b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE02 16112 bytes
SHA-256: 27e01ecfe49f78fda9cbf9b3cb0c012d77f4fef0f83515bbc8a1a54322fa0089