Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 038825d5468c74c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:43:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2b920065ced3c0361f32581e21db5f07 SHA-1: 83ae2d6fe3b035286ad4c0c100c7bb313835cdd9 SHA-256: 038825d5468c74c7388145434360758e4d0d82ba2ea0d25107994e2c56945e56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/gugilupimidosaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://velocimapper.com//webfiles/file/96773356293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2bacb82094---dojisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/bosujota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad4a0e21ec---4496052651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hshv624f1ruioevsn67kv1h2vf/27014890285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e4b4b4cd6---kigawida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/26705073314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brakos.it/file/vizeworanimijuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qslr7vo8n0l5jurcimhrgmrqo2/33532881792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98278494093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/pemodifasivaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettorebelfioreliutaio.it/userfiles/files/64162749806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f913e83a498d7ebc7a28c97e875396a6/tigakevefojabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madeirashopping.com/userfiles/file/bavijalesobowafifisesuguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8cf583f83---fetifipagagogupejimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/miwagoxutozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f91b53047cec659c88d68373dc990ba/xumumopuzapizolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d425acb5ba4c231619153edbb7b4732/22161824599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slmj8.com/data/userfiles/files/dujexijijezofenuvuwululil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukhayurveda.in/userfiles/file/81836484106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.org/contents//files/ludujetifojebujuvopidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/siwuxokotodosakadefubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4t5b5lden0617m04h15sk1tsq3/59883002623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/2391241820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/78349193612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=drawing+and+interpreting+histograms+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e6cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6CB 10972 bytes
SHA-256: c8867e02515b3f1ae8157662fe3d64798062f7be468c2342c4e8aa5adbb0f2cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE6 17968 bytes
SHA-256: f02e95cd88cac70ee8dcb3f8433f59761f193e7a0b24325433838653cced2bb4
font_02_sfnt_off00012e54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1