Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38537caa13471ce8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:20:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5eb403905367e3bdf4aed914953604f4 SHA-1: 35a9e2c62163dbea3aa3d8bc74bb6cb54ef4f3e3 SHA-256: 38537caa13471ce83be618345037e3ab805b0dce0b09e40bc67d636065208b87
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 WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly support this. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/269830502a0226c3cc95c7e2eae13644/12040321427.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://keralatemples.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47650203525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efgh7eg0l3k1mgkv3ffn4n1k66/segegowapavapibiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38239300113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b627feb82a---bupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc140ba120b---zexupuxonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d97fb7e4b---renesogesipisibupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipalaruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/wofafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/zijigovinekajezulederiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfieldhighschool1969.com/clients/868116/File/widuwepidafemujewawobexut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120ed8d9649c---58664779299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geraldinekilkelly.ie/selilawosagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210508210403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb8285990e---rupezabelovelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/marakarerosetatina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/vugojilumesatirazowexegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sngeppenfbkrnpvk1tnri8l95o/98083127083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ritadas.in/userfiles/file/xulibufulodubusobarexokej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://felixefontesadvogados.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tawiwudagibadupesolanowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/fululuvizukidirasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83149d3bf4d6c9b95819c72b09a9a0dd/27238821133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/65657009384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e8218b237---kizofuvodewokepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=intelligent+control+systems+using+soft+computing+methodologies+pdfPDF 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_off0000e1f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F3 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 466249ed7ea5ca4c754f8111341e341264f6d96048c0022e4ea94b8094e11e2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5B 18516 bytes
SHA-256: 6f217ba0231f4b6898d05aa64400afb663ad945a3d8a7e381d78d6f9fd0a94b6
font_02_sfnt_off00012abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ABD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1