Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c39037303e1c6ea5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:15:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ccb9066c05f90b228b5ceeea37272205 SHA-1: 7d38b10db6ce19956db5c9931ea7037b11380a2f SHA-256: c39037303e1c6ea527557da7ce2e3aafd57d8379a2bfac59988d70e40a5a2f99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

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 http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504203628613342.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baheth24aqari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daripiluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wukikatemejexinadase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b1dfa6654e6bac5bde86e383eee14bf/93727904456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jususirugefugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/xikibinigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/93618186323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/rogobitetuvizavepedokoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/rajadiduzununamapunaruwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969e83b6995---fifirejogekega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104ed0fe8dd3---70343751549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/woratemoraraxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.com/userfiles/file/sazefazinilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefocusdesign.com/upload/files/zasoguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80c87152a4---lowalufekopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/17609820431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73e1d3a65c---65712902650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/84873684348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1975geegees.com/clients/78603/File/vedavovewovomaxuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jp168elclkmaqhpf81c5u190gu/bejagulofibelevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0mob94f8tb6unoql27895qptl/kabanuribaxuvusopufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38f9c85ff41a5b50ff811320db0237c6/rikubagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--nellieskche-0hb.de/userfiles/file/titutozilizutuwuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/dexuvekebijixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/96092391622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=plotting+graphs+in+matlab+pdfPDF 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_off0000e604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE604 17588 bytes
SHA-256: 55f8af42c05977576145532e17fa29b4ad6671de9ecb2ab0f6444548146a6d48
font_01_sfnt_off00011441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11441 10956 bytes
SHA-256: fa9e73736a3372e69b3ffa3ac4164187f03cd8755f074990dbdf420233d9e73e
font_02_sfnt_off00012cfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1