Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e39422a3b2a102d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-08-30 04:03:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 67158b89ea0336804a528dc567b7022f SHA-1: 31bbb396494e98848e41e1ed42d7b5d0522ad500 SHA-256: e39422a3b2a102d3f0b80db48b0d95a79151e2718a320fb222c125a6c01a3833
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of urgency lures suggests a phishing attempt to trick users into clicking these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dreams+never+die+class+6+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/80227583883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/wedanunurumozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffa1d3e594---zadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eu39muotu2jnpbtbvrp3jeivn4/64141831933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cj2lcr3ohfoh0o0aqu4k0busr4/84931466189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607593f63219a---2693744711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessie-vinylcare.com/file/76585328908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pixel.bg/img/file/megarerogirazorazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/rarafotiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9619ac88055a7dc092468078d2b67bfb/29756706959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zomatigamusomasipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computergramm.com/userfiles/file/11117912119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/vupizofavavojabimoxuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunarent.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42597828045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/89041147535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c01cd384b7---duraguxukerekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tarokijete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/nasevejimojevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116964e7dc8d---kubaxoxulaxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/gorinenimadakimokamupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd2fee473457f2289790cfa5b9b97101/47499185950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/82662042868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/19311629822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv9jk8actlm6lv71gnql2fblec/nisazalevatovazodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ddfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f610.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF610 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 1c29586229848cd96087c0515dee3d69a47efd50d7f6dd42e3903f0a1ce848a9
font_02_sfnt_off0001248b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1248B 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 5a84099bf68b2733b90a06f96726deddf588adf5ef6fe0f20c965dae8a204694