Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38238f34dd7ba606…

MALICIOUS

PDF

165.6 KB Created: 2021-07-29 23:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 53483a1544ecf78e5a7a2baf2cb72aae SHA-1: b030d5f8a825ea7963034ec9558d48d6106a4ab8 SHA-256: 38238f34dd7ba606e17706c238da4a477a80ec14d5b6a437726ebca156f52b07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+themes+of+the+joy+luck+club PDF link annotation
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f3cf35c0cb1b9fc4e693509e9880e67/67484734448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muribunupena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/443hm4j8igk5m7jebbrnvme77o/pofubewemawanijulelalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traiteur-troyes-mariage-buffet-aube-10.blaisot-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/werifazozezakobaluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d605a9165a879c953a40f3c1a7c6ba54/77527612306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tb0odkom6a2cgmb3dqcrgimd4q/nemobidezepowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/57447466527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fcea99a46---kopolaforijuware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kusupigapos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlondonblvd.com/uploads/files/55233333343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/66726771640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/mukuwivegixowujavipap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bixofezudawinijole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/loxuwipijokorudisatataxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c21d307ce---306938824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/38190257517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c322d4b00cf524435face71b0125ead/ridekimepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8a3103ef4a48bf1aa79f26d91c5c654/76860874299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rev320dho3i9hhrqpo6pqmbjko/62960630370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f97dc7ed9---lelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/rufebelirisubirefetini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/8558951689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087daf5a68cb---6197918238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/zamatenu.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_off0002299e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2299E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000241b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x241B5 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 1207d2e40138d144022facce7c2159cbdc3bd05d178f40e69d6f5634bc46f1e4
font_02_sfnt_off00025b53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25B53 17148 bytes
SHA-256: d2a9a89825ef6c9e2b3459b833fbc9536f11bfe1ce0f32461cd783e485ddbdf0