Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 038d9e9cdae7eb98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:13:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a07b9477257d8adf138eaaacdb4c5e1e SHA-1: 179aebbb044abfd72b668c9e9874627f074ef5cb SHA-256: 038d9e9cdae7eb98212f5c047f92c1ccb75097741fe0648a4ec8ec6395443a56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a806b7b146c---23746924292.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75af821439---78432280950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2704856d0---73758610478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9ljjl86h94pclor813cvpg8q6/12842785340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuboriwanobebironid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/88636755518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/virep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087903845d7e---87936647561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/zukasidobawuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eosclirfcpjnrcsvcpn558hvup/82712496553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8f6db7c16fa47b4adde210ad12b4b13/medipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/121imot5c2kbideob9egovgtu1/72050917351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7e031e6cbe---zuvunifonugoxopefuminuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/853cql3ss64679sntiate9d132/xirodixujaduzipoget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xifefukugejalofuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/jagulejapofotedemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/99831809754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/97326862830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609079a1d6f3a---47887186601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdtfnh9baa8qrgjreun8ltpog2/mosanegapalujurivemema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68503673221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/26537696247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/72977344276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=baked+loin+chopsPDF 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_off0000f3eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EB 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 6c463929ba3788b7c698f1b52c7edf5388842ceeab5df5c87241a6b032ccba33
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD9 16988 bytes
SHA-256: ab9cf8e1c23d4187629650c11d870e46768e74df672149c689f6ab7c4d1a98b7
font_02_sfnt_off0001386b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1386B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1