Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38433b7f6e3a974e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 00:59:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0bf54652d1326ce5f7812abd7bbd54dd SHA-1: 867800be49222626fd95b9609b09e1edc69a1557 SHA-256: 38433b7f6e3a974e799ee5c91937845be0c8eab53ed398b0fee2d794538feb24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fast+and+furious+hobbs+and+shaw+hd+stream PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926ad6310c8---77674189086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737e528a2e9---2106988543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/270432d1ea2ca4588af8c8346470b157/46617573858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/mewiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/9730441360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a52831af9c9---43358038499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df542b91e197512d387599f630b7a6e4/lajuzadojaniradej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080876b80e45---6271783572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l34kv60r1vm34r4542g95mdae8/fawepekunegeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/11853426038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurocomm-italia.com/file/47313493269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6c84e2733b---raruboxaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/rofusukopukexakelibafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/545e86c734b07987a1a78ec17b533964/73359396868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tackqq8vg5vt2mri264ntdprv7/28744351779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1a2125a37---18222177612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/10898331506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832d9d562ec---89172939567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08b934575b---welivapimizezekudedomifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/gobepubodipixafofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac01b75872d---pozabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d223eae4eb4---gesoruviwepezutumesivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc1c9eb980c8898c4e0e18f298431200/modokasofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.haievent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omlei9rdq03n9o4tdsv6fs0tqu/254491930.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_off0000e92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92B 17716 bytes
SHA-256: ca3b6a0cb3ea80e179700a0ecb12ad5bd60d585712d8a99eaf8218deda73bdc2
font_01_sfnt_off0001177f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177F 10876 bytes
SHA-256: b531e7173bf8b9eaffd07f977ccef27c5874a143784a79c18fe9ef5325d5a008
font_02_sfnt_off0001307c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1307C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1