Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b39b20782855c20a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-08-30 08:43:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: aeac9e0d0747549fa4c70ea352a1bdb5 SHA-1: 05ff1bdae0861e82c45d1bc23d94c7d682300957 SHA-256: b39b20782855c20a2b9145d54f2aa06ac765d628d287a5cc306dca2cfed37bbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, web content.

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 http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67248887727.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sibconsulting.com/contents//files/38527689744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c465702fbbb---20610387714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cb2c96215---26645604417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniqueaddress.in/crm/files/xifadonizisilaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u84q4derh18dve6oc5f8rkvmai/33107707228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bab5dd7a05---gemofezopak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/nuvanatezegizesosakegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9d25e45b3---13934141517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ce4cb05e4---74303660323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/45944936279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/zogokipinetepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/nojilugorubozimakara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/titoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711848c8e7c---86066020188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/keliba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7ca0e6127---xiwuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3c9bd1335---nawitojaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/81567726365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/18991018700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/55225493405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/89991804095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a60c40ed97---70123027768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/314b1r7vbmgl6tk0es9fihbm0k/wukivogukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=three+main+types+of+eating+disordersPDF 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_off0000c4ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4AE 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 27c0db47d0d4237f45dc76e0278e3673edf704d1037b03165717e0cdcd70d315
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCF 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 2fc905b144d93ba958f929a93196af0ea8bb87641d5e0fa31919667eeefb0b4a
font_02_sfnt_off0001072f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1