Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d39db27c03ef15c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-08-18 22:38:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b949038b44b21d82c6e5a90fd4e73c18 SHA-1: 4120d6855b3e992530f82cb579c61ae4147a03ce SHA-256: d39db27c03ef15c5b46ca79fab9cc4f818dc59b00a14328982b14175a5bab0c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination and potentially distribute malware or conduct phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/31588284072.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://libertyrealestate.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23870740740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/15801327440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/606c4de6238a6d94218d14e4d468fd70/45115797824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/59466112969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e68e5afdd2---19232233044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socukorglutamatmentesfuszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xurenulufegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/99909682910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/879a11abe61c79a398ad1393efc717cc/26195284357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08b7e067bd031452e3d066619b0ec4dc/33151072484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigitiwemenawukewoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d249f25af9ab0b452d3802ea79cbd44/kuguvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6957a1df2---26934303668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/76095938653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/nebigutumasabikadimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/pijizivutidok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/57739588359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st03.it/userfiles/files/84414896159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/29433290582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16b72275d4---noxuwurulolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a025978906d---lowafefutefewejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/14162372092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/18768469393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f59127bcfc---68181865838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+ounces+is+a+large+sonic+blastPDF 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_off0000c6b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6B3 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 786f4c4564fe4c8e62d1b077fdb70c2bc1bfb4cef215b78f275f1959c43f267f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f36c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF36C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B83 11004 bytes
SHA-256: ada69ce8c94373fb0c4ef687666f59c631595102f3c48eaa1df1fe67bd0a0bb8