Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38318ca307e4445d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-08-22 00:34:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 284d2e93110fe4438b58b5a7f05d992b SHA-1: 60bae8ebbab5c4056f6446638875b1bb96a35863 SHA-256: 38318ca307e4445dcf5ddede08b8858e516fdc2da30ddf127746d317147cc8c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, many pointing to compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to assess its purpose as a malicious link aggregator.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=battlefield+bad+company+2+gamepad+fix PDF link annotation
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/xedumezigerivimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40qttn8d69p35l8q851mofomdn/wuxigage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a040c5264e2---33543981008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/tusutesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/5862724963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5ed5bc3b8---8908374597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc36caf3db3ac88c5a47e44c5411006/wunurukigagabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cg4fijrimahsnkmkimu8o2f7rm/wagunolabemuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/nozesafined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210621085857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/97702690986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxons99.com/clients/5/5f/5faa49e4155ddd0d4faf97b0d7aa3dde/File/zupawarokajumunudebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0e57ccec341c7c240a041a1c5db99e3/podipunazalabuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namthangbasaltstone.com/uploads/image/files/xonanaxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/vabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tf2o3ntl6ogaa9mu15v8pai55k/vulexani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqtv793mh6pt772aeo283nj5s1/maxagomumozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607016328abe4---femokumigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtreurope.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86752888742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928af208ab8---dilititukapazoxozubimibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ac01032fdc3fe09a1ad13ac2c4980fb/zemezofijegotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210603145117955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/fodajobofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rent-1.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65732809046.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_off000108d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D1 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 0a97a5ead67ff26f463b6c823b59e54dcfe5a2ad2b00dece2c915626f2e8b56a
font_01_sfnt_off000122c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C3 17588 bytes
SHA-256: f1185eff58b38b403a85a28ef0799ae86ac7c05b2a852e0fea7cdad37c402a8a
font_02_sfnt_off00015093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15093 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1