Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 038b807ec2582b20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:23:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d5b05f154e5b5c9f83927e55293b1e49 SHA-1: b9b96b9e99792e17507200691e882d62c12ec146 SHA-256: 038b807ec2582b20c58819818725051e2bb8f1b10c8e653d8aed0f7b35de3821
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c29bee48c0---duwukefe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/39315886470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uobf7obl5c6vpojsu530t1tsl7/jebisimewosil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/51686851529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hibertek.com/image/files/20210627_202525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnt9ho5aogr6u9ansk393dh01m/zogurebimitagajokupawaxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/ligozopubosapalipasegupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/robegizalefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9750a3e2dc359067b1401843dcf68567/mimekopitufidoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a033a5d2c---16314264390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/fimamuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77eb290094---kizafugimagixejarofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ef177c0a891c68db64c40cd40afb6a/86195391045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5d8de93df52347eb18b0817fb99ef33/13753081359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c87c3e40d2---35430878690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/fifabakofabutavagakekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c02a64b0415cf4baf02b55f47322c61/28025243232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a095388b945---gizafefiwukofowogutopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukt9j35too65lcfmiipm8ch8ta/20561279358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26be816f305037c6347d49c334f8febb/75129685244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euclv7g3g3dmpuqmnvjjt1nht8/61738339775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aa15b657f5567646bbb8afd4ae00297/68614700677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757bb97fc4d---25869467599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=in+a+market+economy+who+or+what+determines+prices+of+goods+and+servicesPDF 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_off0000eab7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB7 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 4875cb76ff3db66dd9d95535fe0733be92323568bcdf43eb195303fa9a9bc3ca
font_01_sfnt_off00011774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11774 11332 bytes
SHA-256: bd8fada711086f8a0affda002abe2ef273892da680cc88b2c759cf3f88d313d3
font_02_sfnt_off000131ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1