Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 338e0c986684e902…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-27 06:27:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 976d654231ef25b5d5402a5153583208 SHA-1: 083c63d913f5cfb9fdebe563f5e8b6ab7e9b31bb SHA-256: 338e0c986684e902647170348687d848c90f74d4c9f5e0b2edcb7dfcd190231f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a malicious payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087467635b4c---kedap.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed9d5926160---33540247075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b215dbc17---41521794077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fd13216ab---pilaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/wevifoxaranemepofowiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/kutafewekugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/25982360239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210703135002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/liketirafefovuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50228543413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/fesoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780ed15df3b---21460193873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f39a6de33e---bapitinubugaseganonisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aada2ee2f58---boladosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fed054da7281d80db2d85c9305f905f/panunabufolemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6a9cafecca9507bac3038e0a7a3b424/zegule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b62244f4672747bef74c70314c652986/45029431417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ivm5bdllmf875tldm06kmjvsm/19304414105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf69c6e1f35c6be504348b38fa749d20/7345620822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/fawasameguxudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/samuvaradozekelukegasukut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/polijawinowetejaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=hack+para+asphalt+8+pc+windows+10PDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b075b4d5387---43066791237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B2 19016 bytes
SHA-256: 2b6718022d8568919b1b0e3908dd0956545e8c35188586073ee874fcae016eba
font_01_sfnt_off00011248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11248 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5F 11032 bytes
SHA-256: f660b5f9ce122dbc5ab1c7d4be18e8c175ad71181939c2e5e9168fbfd7609d3b