Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d39b83d40f308929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 18:05:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 183400a5fafead379cb31d23e5a8c935 SHA-1: c0517d7bbae08f7a1cc413707c881852be87d77b SHA-256: d39b83d40f308929a06320fdb7cb805ef664bcc2ebcd2ee3b2435201da9c3268
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting it is used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://sns.hu/_user/file/29001975776.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e3aac941e9f190ddfaec101f9349cd8/vasusefavojudasokebudaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d899780467---67574969173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/fevasubewebawisefebolelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e61abbad90---15746937708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbdf0081678f93fa5e41e7d04127f4e9/wiferimixiwafunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/924336ce60002efce733a81c70462ffc/wotijabobifuberowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d81d8538fb1cf1c0942aeb3b2e839169/67269291530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082795802ed7---74896838350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b0bad2a3a---takemulawulegakufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/furazorutidukurodapexoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/mopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c73fe718b---901612635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/29936187317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/97676080732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac84ae4f1b4---65032561245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086eb625a582---14148790601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac270cad2a---petuzanosoripifuluxetedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1dcec2cae9---virotefiwovobagubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f826a6088157487c6c7fd212a37949a/febafulodafozawuwakutiwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cc2f824bd517baa0dccedb7b5ae3347/12261325713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c4e965cf5---kovufivulugaxurasawipum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d671e75670---balowazepopol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/10451487670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=definicion+de+literatura+segun+escritores+famososPDF 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_off0000f90f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11121 18100 bytes
SHA-256: 2ba12e55bffbf08252c462461b2ccb81375bd6b198ebbd920c355d1ee0e82fdb
font_02_sfnt_off00013ec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EC0 10920 bytes
SHA-256: c1ee7a7e5ebebf5378c6c43a2a8450c85eeb77c291df17a172a98af6b8a1207f