Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 382942ed1bc7880f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-24 00:48:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 2e87dadfaaa5dc0e4342170c2a6e61b1 SHA-1: 0b8e9dda81bcd01e30ddfd5b78972ecf66e1922f SHA-256: 382942ed1bc7880f7c5bc7c0e3f91d790f91944fe644596250f8972da621f612
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URL analysis clearly point to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/57966300412.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608077dabc0a6---purevabelaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/21738743243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d0ee5c588c5ad509ccc854f38b41d3d/tofazamaxapaxotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90k1v1jjjhnuhiq5gcnhe92ro1/94558293494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c583df3c119---nitegaxipixudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/8144024818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/gosozugujilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814e412ff7f---28578595290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/58448679495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/wasatuxepadopifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/5111481548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826667cb33b---xinurakitogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticahighclassof78.com/clients/8/89/89c70e22fe5ad1405280b455f64975d7/File/wodivebeleruxojiluvixusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vk2del07hmaoj6igek7vugd6of/97638609670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmv66hmrq9hii962k819qclbhp/25115689500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vksraja.in/fckeditor/upload/file/27565805282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/14892274944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/fikisijitokafixakufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/duketizusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/tefuwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35g718jssnd2a5bjiocas63t47/96081480141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/zosoduro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32e9mkcdk912dcj7rfvq67gs51/foxasubupukumiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a41a8d8bf---79941000322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+class+9+maths+book+solution+chapter+2PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e68a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE68A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE9C 16624 bytes
SHA-256: c10ea12429597acdb1a57f59d554e28b909f017546508df860a6bb6fa34e5a11
font_02_sfnt_off000129f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F5 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 4784d3db14497f60268d1a57982d2338576518ed9ad25854f024cef79238918e
font_03_sfnt_off000143f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143F0 16340 bytes
SHA-256: a0ce4e8f78e31798958bace843dfb63cff617be392112063d31781315f31e640