Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d39baa2c4d336e5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:50:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 88c9cfd87aa04582aaff9a54f980225b SHA-1: 159d4b464ce5495211f024b6e8d833d4d14e7ddc SHA-256: d39baa2c4d336e5cf4d4af2443cfce0dda4a3884ca4a1cdf87d19ec1aa913a8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically a phishing or trojan variant. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect the user.

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://ylpcl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagilavejejazewixadapus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aleemanschools.org/userfiles/file/24903950665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/natuxironoxonopuginovemor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364d2e170a9---73568711637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/09/file/23189921700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powerfalcon.net/uppic/files/nokojidulale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-serviss.lv/userfiles/file/67108785191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/58858108086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140d43713836---zokololodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cddc61f1c3---1676816297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9l7o4ar7e005utfi1rvf4d65ti/dovasaxerolikoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/9556877493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d88456d35da7b2817ecdaa855df8bd/duronemumebub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408e3c64b44---napivijumito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/61695761380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/92099195995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbaytag.com/resimler/files/22715131755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613284eea4cc5---61353365406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiw.gbpopatowiec.pl/img/upload/files/bugemasolojoleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkc1.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/pokidizepagubojinikajidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanruouvang.net/images/uploaded/file/sodotidiweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pidixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bankubezpieczen.pl/userfiles/file/92206032450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessnavigator.in/ckeditor/uploads/files/tojurunoveseletiwigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/81000822045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=set+ringtone+from+wynkPDF 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_off0000e6df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6DF 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 68f16948b41e2be3fd71e358e2bc86bf514c21e64ef2275f788270a5db77db33
font_01_sfnt_off0000fefc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFC 16772 bytes
SHA-256: e82c61259247500086ab02e612e0ebe4e334150ee17cb9384249e4b1607bfd7f
font_02_sfnt_off00012a73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1