Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 338054e2d1017fae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-25 11:30:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 83bfb97aaa8966cca4a9a5be935b33f0 SHA-1: fa7c8037fd383798fa6b4ccf1acf8f88d5b140a5 SHA-256: 338054e2d1017fae2359f666b3b32b2a6de9531727f917457c0dfa56f2896fa8
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 WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c48542cf5a64889e36e355a2739e58ce/sevijegixevizomaxakikotul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07075c4257f639db87942519683bd3e4/39502343390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ooexperience.be/assets/Image//files/49397783744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/tobuvazuwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210504081323137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/17272420282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobas.cz/userfiles/file/busaxedifitivitegesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talcmanagement.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/lomuzojeruduvidozizufuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4461bee0d---zasovilenazubujudevorata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ij6kvi0u5kvp2s4gf22a4cc896/67533776122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/wizifuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78j1nivo8lm9hnfccqbmi5je0e/18174886253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f7b8bc4e2954b361ab9eabc63a58db0/mutofazomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/57358111825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/vorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/38759182577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpksieradz.pl/upload/file/kijuwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893cc4c24c8---nenojizuzajozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af99e9a6f0a---pevuperize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizojibinajubepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/rofaxenojoralaromuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/49808486252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8qj9goa8ht3h7ae9ou4gpj0sp1/lifunulujekikigazupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+a+question+meanPDF 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_off0000d6b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eec8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC8 18868 bytes
SHA-256: 3d745bd0449af6aa0f1287c4190f9c9adbc3a33fbcbc9f4a9e179aaa08d1f6d2
font_02_sfnt_off00011e74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E74 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 12757eda40e82deb036edea6ec99dc6e0b7e017d98526552c2682a116872bf81