Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe39aa926ae26291…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:26:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8faffef5a8d84ee8ad0a88a47e07f58c SHA-1: 77534a78544e55e1c8a737e9c5bdc79817195abd SHA-256: fe39aa926ae26291845d916544031fcce4a11509f64dd40e82c3247617d3668d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. These links are likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed3f7929c8---27150507987.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inncredel.com/uploads/76795626712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/xovasimixixavozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhconsultancy.nl/userfiles/files/41065649906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607408c3e04d8---96784941565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e37ba442b52f2b518095d87916196e66/18943557965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/lipunuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/pimevelizevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b305252542298632943efca7d83fe4/wuxixuxesapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonioloclaudio.it/userfiles/files/buranado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da12b8c255b0c3279563556c3ca2cf6/19785163193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/21958907827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084da0941be0---xumufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitekinfostructures.com/userfiles/file/tamegofopuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/22317956082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb97a8cb8d8---vufivadetinowazuzumeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f48d0ea60---tapedoxoromadujisuzimago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/19514421543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ejegellfe9imlmdht3nmas5p7/dimurusogunere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/28012330493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/mifageva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freestyler.cz/img/file/ponised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwaysindia.com/uploads/83760014505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/96679915676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=counselling+for+terminally+ill+patientsPDF 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_off0000ef2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2D 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 37092ced8004b447369db71be56f30aa5e16f66da130dac550634c60ffe3dc52
font_01_sfnt_off000108a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A3 16964 bytes
SHA-256: f5b7afd07db2f4dc492189abcfdd2f2940da7ff87cfef4164d7e4825b654c30a
font_02_sfnt_off00013475.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13475 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1