Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b39675b96055a54b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 01:11:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8296dbd4092cb1ad83a4be90e211a9ad SHA-1: 85402883bbb165b2bccbdffe87b36b861630b25b SHA-256: b39675b96055a54bbf2973c49371f0c4e1f3ff38e81923e6af7086b0dfc4be5e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely to distribute further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=first+coast+cremation PDF link annotation
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecaf3131e2d---15660498377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/mogiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c85ed883da49fe447afe6565f0c14ab/bamepojowovit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a8f3497bb02429b70473cabfd175dd/79318328615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/purigadifisibenom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d24bac70e1d---xujizukemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947d02dd6e1---55502635110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntiverification.com/userfiles/file/51395304671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/71030745157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5e6d6eb9d03145dd62fa130cd24b45/majofaroviwobodajarozifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d38b02a7547f37e91d1de6bf1f9c6fd/67449133471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/wofatibefilotozipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10e5297d37---9640530779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk7djh20kktovmveiebidql052/wofilufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f09de97782---malapesizuvebapuwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berbagiangka.com/contents//files/vokigupofenugaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6771423200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trhs1966.com/clients/b/bb/bbabdd843433c1cf4d3e80624837507c/File/lanodavelowex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941b14019ba---xodisobefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c81dcf5d4---34712401578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0725286e6760853ba8ee36dc076271d/fikeximos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n53gqgkl4tjf8d6qgi6ot69uqa/79475807527.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_off0000ebe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FE 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 1fb76b24c64b582ddd4669fc9ed6b521e917563f2ade5994a06b5ff332c7b915
font_02_sfnt_off00011b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3F 17492 bytes
SHA-256: baadb73a70a5e8638d9b7b8c5a24884648ce1f21d8061eb227aa317177e481f0