Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e39f81fe9120c7a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:11:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8ee16134add37bfacd6f30ecf3400d50 SHA-1: ffbe55a976e03cf6cc577448bbd25621baa5c0c6 SHA-256: e39f81fe9120c7a74478a0577170e31a88d1c2f1a35aeddf853613472cfffb6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/kuwujades.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/wovifamerote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/zobamewomasuvukakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806b7b2145d---nozavexigekerolemasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bb4826b2b0---4396728426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c35d668d75a9ce165d79f3a5d601cd5/87260666274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41171340418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbope5tnnp0rr7pqui0dr14j74/xurutunuxisibewafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxstep.nl/userfiles/file/86300051625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e569f8f58c8f76f9281953bf2fad569/lisomavititaxalinibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/977b156ad2c66894d27c0b50b244a811/wadepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7613da50123a5075fa26c5ef5260160/1294197325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0f4db6dc2fde1ebd968040e1d0d66e8/kitorem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/lofizulizemomigovuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb4c203283---botinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92577198103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/77279463403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almawred-sy.com/files/adminfiles/files/83390907939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dded2c21ca64b9e2456b0f1d48cd57c/58765231870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eaecd3003d---26033758542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puvoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/20875140560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=renewable+energy+resources+mcq+pdf+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/bonopazeg.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_off0000e66c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE83 11404 bytes
SHA-256: 66341dd49590a4f586af90b7087a99d2b49b55e92657a2a4514d47323fb6cd5c
font_02_sfnt_off000118c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C0 18536 bytes
SHA-256: 58804cfd8092554233006530a27056eb87c46031be27fe49c1548aea116acb1c