Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de39be044cd392de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:11:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0e5f7f3c060ad1224aa74bc0b21bfedf SHA-1: 124b2645e0f21f32e324c0b2f200371c848731e5 SHA-256: de39be044cd392de2af3cc7bacfaf506039fcd8ea93447b527d9116d69895fe0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9894

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://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719ffd57d36---89408411214.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://presentkompaniet.com/img/content/file/78273294453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ko5jbtb039ugo9hhbgetaahae/61466907099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eaa8f8d4f9ddcc3bf1ebb61f753eeef/pemojekizuwasefitevasafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stomatoloska-ordinacija-rijeka.com/files/zevotawokeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/54316638093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yngc.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wamatifedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a431b2850a7ed10072df6283a5244a1/popilarovazunoxove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611182b4bfb6d---gotaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4919e75d43---jozamiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc72b03ca03---detomamumigaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbosgn1al9i.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95670095482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811308889e4---karivuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607550e534934---50022815848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90371198581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/59816794816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learningsolution.ca/userfiles/files/35401193508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/47214383384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/feveguzatovenanevesajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d872f5afd6---10062893602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/sefejogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/sagakuwajolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1802cd6ie6vql821s7l1aot7k/domar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a640843614a---79699400292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/59270234627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89e6a82e7e---91715261976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c150e00de33---21593753885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=stranger+things+d%26d+character+sheets+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_off0000ba8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA8C 15816 bytes
SHA-256: 9f3315df3e717f4acd236771a8212d2124f5dee58e78b6083cc12894bdf9b377
font_01_sfnt_off0000e31e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE31E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB35 10436 bytes
SHA-256: b5dc8e685d50ec2658771ae9293e242e80fbd9461b875826272c78406b0bac42