Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00238f281e7db13a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:37:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: fa41736ff3e70c63fa27949b9c7d4a27 SHA-1: 7ab5b57d2b99db262efe9fc85ef9fa79199237ad SHA-256: 00238f281e7db13a60dfd387a5394e6f25dd987eb8b164589cde58eb4bdbf8c7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and a visual download button lure further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://giayviettri.com/img-ftec/files/selofidosewuvunurev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrqm868d1cghh60pjh0u0pbr58/71515972039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebornfair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_BA68D77C4A467FD6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegoshow.net/userfiles/file/53309954159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55261556271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monterroso-construpuntos.com/campannas/file/30703983531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flashdisplay.net/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210913000805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/44928373654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hediyelikhanem.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jetodorezofiwabivepumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/wexujupipolisuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/71083077801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71739123006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otomatcilarmetal.com/otomat/upload/files/98969091986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelangela.hu/userfiles/file/48021614959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efe613e421---97035466265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/77515484901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/bubogixumezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockefellersgold.hu/editor_up/6073063328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76aujrtvf90s1g9f42le8rpoii/dubofodegutukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsdinstruments.nl/uploads/files/12321886687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/47108661348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jdconstinc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18677969927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/kabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/10253408969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613572fda23e4---36437353321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=after+we+collided+free+torrent+downloadPDF 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_off0000c76f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC76F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF86 10368 bytes
SHA-256: bb94cc4425411d1852a8f1dfebdee1a758213ac3a1f009fb795fa2b3b2de188c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF723 16996 bytes
SHA-256: 976e8c2c5970b405f6dc4690c1d149f425f3d52339ed15a82b89ff5f3ea20438