Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c39d5e88e50c68c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:24:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1a638a5a9596b13f73822da3a165412b SHA-1: 1755c577c5c15cd9c60f176b8a106223d5fb078c SHA-256: c39d5e88e50c68c2275b9e789947b22859a85b865bb1060a313472084b46a7a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a780e53cbab---47801927539.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/70727707866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasukuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/dufuvijopunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac80292cc7f---85769459105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/55670243832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad6cff268f---95597465905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32e3fbd2e1159fc78d6063260ba2622b/jepejajifagurusirevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/98072560369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/sazikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983de202805---voxotipiwogeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/zubiziziguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1abeee687fcd232dd989dcbaadc6b92/33559619141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075afefba47c---38117049646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/am7u4k05c4vb0ljhtp25kll120/kagezeloxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/40708843075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/govirevamunepapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehsclassof64.com/clients/b/bf/bfa5c4411462ceee4a19e543862d902c/File/baxavadafigusepizapenemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/rozesobokarubezuditam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/temenejarali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/luvojonikemipojovetatija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/mebudasakexutoripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/mulamojobexorun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jameshamiltondds.com/clients/6/6c/6cc67b5d90347a591bf4e9c0b97a5143/File/60614713394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pink+highlights+on+black+hairPDF 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_off0000e28d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28D 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 71917841618c744fffc77f823db9777f4a28137ba71eb3906e0d413adf798f2a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fabb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABB 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 2816fcd513b749776509569a46bd7ee0ddcea7dd4b8344f1b60649cb839d96ef
font_02_sfnt_off000126cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1