Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38388d8364931056…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 05:03:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 59a7e591621c2fc56fb6594103f4b804 SHA-1: a7b8a94f3294e2a099e6484e8d2a644a06fa9d21 SHA-256: 38388d8364931056f8bd642e0ff2ce6323693fbb5bba2931ffa5a0af1fadaa1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files. The primary purpose seems to be to lure users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://rotang.net/userfiles/file/3467555786.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/59328920102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609638ce063aa---kofenidotigunanir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f4af8c95fb4aae186663b1804f917d0/85873201429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855ebeca67c---20088976844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52300429783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/32413987431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210716_025208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608340dd0d7bc---wuzur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/nedibegilawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20331084548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/midexurulofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878368f2fa8---xafufotirabuvogoterijina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c310f03ca3859c2c1dde9dc933ec96d7/29565268113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/890d00b818e927a44c5dfd362897a4bb/lagoniwipudazefafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757933bc249---vunowegumitexoger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/takerotajelepezifinejuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c626c0ce46bb866bccbf74989befa687/zazutagowenanunol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://screen.by/images/file/wizupedenodakoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/wuruwizebojulevovumogegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhcuuen1ppotiqsbamhflnpggm/85722323949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0e853a937af911dd289794389224d05/tagapetixiwusumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/36605414255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents//files/nukusilomuzipefexesefesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cc9d7481f---57801436122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b57a72cb6---45833646886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fba692016---goxidugurufosomaxukubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=janaki+sriram+song+download+mp3PDF 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_off0000f4a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A2 10844 bytes
SHA-256: b23443f1c285d3fb5c32fc9dddcd82d24f24857aaf4b2a9a749fc17c7b49e8e0
font_01_sfnt_off00010d76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D76 17096 bytes
SHA-256: b69903450b923a278c36b3eb3a6bc3b6b3cc809125cde46d7f70da77036efa2e
font_02_sfnt_off00013a48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1