Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a39dcb5fb724f89c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 19:11:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 46b0b2777bd37f8bb4d580448312634d SHA-1: 505f6ccf3600fbe910aa74fb3e7017f6664d2d1d SHA-256: a39dcb5fb724f89c55409e52fd61f295a0d94aad0ac82df1523b8adeb4434de3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to direct the user to malicious external content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+parental+controls+on+android+tablet PDF link annotation
    • https://longhoang.vn/upload/files/bezusogidozezogopat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/vifotafuxilowolirubum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/gapokedukufumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36282854368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingkangchem.com/upload/files/76981206130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/20345902028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/58621715933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ae15ecaa5---95080358720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/towekuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/30288454062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyandwowbook.com/upload/file/dakasitojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lbjgold.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86857324115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210910004624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/pemirotewebag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a311f3f3449ad21013228fd3ba99712c/922053345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/46640891648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613237dae0f22---ponofowuwaxobumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/wajexapufipiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/gowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.com/userfiles/files/lolufimopulomevisewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotojursa.cz/userfiles/file/12650998704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/32251142860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anninh247.info/upload/files/jewitozirokeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/namur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89071307110.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE256 10724 bytes
SHA-256: e8082c328bafdedbc4302c1913a99ec4d303a02b0b67e6f048813c18df299c94
font_01_sfnt_off0000fae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F6 18524 bytes
SHA-256: f65509f33e0e0eb67f6e3a91cef360a4ec42d583f7c512a9bc53ff6705734557