Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a39ac3c6ab6da6b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:33:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d677e13317072c671a68d191082d939d SHA-1: 5e9de5b42f37317aad5eccff60210e23eabee64a SHA-256: a39ac3c6ab6da6b365eb0a7d06bb5a055e548253e33636ee3c234cdd62b67707
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment, likely serving as a lure to download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f04b7889621---foretobuwutonagarav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/dosopedego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.org/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/dosilukopepopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songuryazilim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wupolunevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613390f09e5a1---24393326821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/66387598437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58ed88a071---68534719962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.com/userfiles/file/94252897977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/3521761902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azs-szermierka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/85587205022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dc01a31cdc87ba49237723228f2a964/wobilazazakuwaxezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15c3c1bf1a---31180951235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/8434831899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nelujipasefifanevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/netetodolaxido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b4b983cd5---9282729579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/zuzozibekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents//files/firunulifapedakobenema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/60772932519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62358906484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moolans.com/uploads/files/13524888075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/20607899062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=el+gigante+egoista+en+ingles+pdfPDF 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_off0000d846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD846 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05D 10556 bytes
SHA-256: c3e84c02720925a01917245d31cc4eaed3ce41762d3945f1154b92e2c3ab8856
font_02_sfnt_off0001084e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1084E 19436 bytes
SHA-256: d50e75cde0ffe72ef07fef0ba1caec1696abd1fbd337efc87a10f8f1a19c9f93