Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be39732b97dc2929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:45:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cc990f2dabdb583735b675da765e4999 SHA-1: 68f55a9367c823694bbeaeed5de03d03b0065bae SHA-256: be39732b97dc29295913515060cf9790a22eb702b2a978a0d9ec1b35bd9332de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these linked PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/golamedarexusobadevuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095aea34d6f6---25240735987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08de2ccd64---faruxokimivefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210528_E0DDBF6647BEBC40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/togbf8uf8gqs5m41ma15vq6lcl/kiluverivavodabisipedep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51addd964a24685e76d7fc2996d69026/fafata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094398c1aeb8---82421700562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b0ee53d3a---norirobavogesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/41453868011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/wamofasifefaxeduma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/18750450768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/vixerenisetojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d62039a7f3ff745e4ecccfc0668528c/jowikorafiloxigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/32334991490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfb59a9731f88f38a13655cd8a23343e/7584073815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b397124fa8d---43538179221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bbb09c9107b183261e4b5abbcf898f5/suwupagufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/zusuvokivuvoguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/58025343779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=diagram+of+leaf+with+labelPDF 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_off0000e180.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE180 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 18d927c4f895af4006e5a5a80549b0c4c55f259dbfb28b1e109f974a0459222b
font_01_sfnt_off00010cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFF 10616 bytes
SHA-256: bc3551bb55a76d46201fb8df82fed7fe7165d4ced959fa5da735170840821531
font_02_sfnt_off00012551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12551 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1