Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38167559c82968f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-17 07:51:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 33d18aa62537e9788e14976bf7a0c4a8 SHA-1: 4ce10d5963909ada757789ba0d2d53f6ff3ac13a SHA-256: 38167559c82968f0ed98583b284a621b7d5faba718fe3c0b37b99e26cf1599f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely lead to further malicious content, such as phishing pages or additional malware payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather as a vehicle for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/92464837705.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee1e01dcb56442eec2e8de855138efd9/zepupewutenif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbnjl.com/userfiles/files/21821181076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trongtinpc.com/luutru/files/18819115573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161152522a792e---34806575602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/56525836528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d09340117f---totedaxuwifolozamevaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edf957d725f---39267675499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/82866872513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4e68dc38c6---37834262724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///ninebebugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f96eb100bf9958aedae8ed1b2b8776/lomifiroriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31614893186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982b6686604---volejane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/63796705586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logansport1971.com/clients/4/42/424235dfd0fdcd2d3cc2afd1e16bb83e/File/39824862427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b25dc2eae32c7afcded42675cb0960e/rilopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8dfe84414e---19415727837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5ak92ufn9m6774dqg5ihs1im8/41974348910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/55024305912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/kuvesedawidomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b508e868bee5d0f0145b5b0593ee1ded/lobajevufesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c034ca1b7---sewijogepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deccanquest.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/kazulanumopijeriwapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+reader+offline+installer+windows+10+32+bitPDF 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_off0000e612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE612 16688 bytes
SHA-256: 03cb7a9a22ba034b8ff0e8e4fc4fa2fbe6c0caff30dfb34e228335ff1b650d73
font_01_sfnt_off00011174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11174 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001298b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298B 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 304633178f91a6f1d97c7d506d7e924adde8e10a360b938d097aaf3db8a56228