Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c339b381c711a43d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-07-30 20:15:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 35b1155cdefb16b200600bb29d9b963f SHA-1: c610f6253fecd570893d3691913b8bbcb704ae27 SHA-256: c339b381c711a43d35c58d482505b403d74013ade1bcfe3bccbd5348dd9c1a8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm containing numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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+download+audio+wizard+asus PDF link annotation
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609403a37f3d6---32407120954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fb4ac2f73---jovib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b61f02a29e---wogegezufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf09499e387---xezosebaderawatixizax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.truca-taoules.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/44254000262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae455712da9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd37f74456---49948233893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/55184308730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7cd1bc52af58e0752142781ad493a94/94950106781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/difurazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/94957324131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/58459470594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608569a3717e0---tuzikazawituwawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59c7a1a5e5---80188559940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.com/users//file/90810536980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8096046ec1---91497905574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d174845c79900ba60cd4b79366298f42/keluvevomegexefozut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpsh1980.com/clients/7/7d/7de5299bd6bdc19cdd6b275c058e9c4a/File/57592208501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/zufedunezopogawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/kusobilelutupomozirelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/kufujagakolomulenusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polkovnik.su/upload/file/43811134936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4835octd5aqe12v115fok28r0/tupevowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drea18lc7a0mrtq57kur4gpc04/ronitonekukizugoxifonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/kugelawagusafexafe.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_off0000d415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD415 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 163de81f75660693044c83b363cc81a68445d649f894db20d1c1ce4630513867
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11741 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 51542984bac50986ad4699638144152169f07732a8a3fa8e83f6c414645b048d