Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38537ff37adbc31e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 10:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 95c174133dd0e3e46503bba3a6953a89 SHA-1: 77c07cc899194a2ef175cc7e3064a4afe7e46b35 SHA-256: 38537ff37adbc31e52a4be9cf4eca6a687a7c25f36b79c708a33391cf4bc7ca4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. Heuristics suggest it is a link farm on disposable hosting and points to compromised CMS uploads. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775618c8052---38074884643.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65639222492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3k3l305t3l85r63soi7jqv9802/66355086172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e75d54da5787f2c73f66f492644ebf7/49586840164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739eaa00750---vikoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0012a77fd3---wupafiponovurinuxiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/909cf48f7d0c44716280611ea426e56f/sutalisobawederugiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/14793694182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnermind.cz/images/files/sajupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/zaxesolesizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/vuloxopupejefuwojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/jovemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41ea98aee8f2625063b25349b8fb321b/80550532568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/97377434641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b3bcdf8cc---99756708978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6d5ca4d7ed---sijogurekejilevumotufekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/titojalazitigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7d2bvt94n1fr8uk9e3s85oh5r/17209242222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2afgsa5pa0rnjqf8tb9hsll0o/18873906842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2j7qi1s5ps8e44nsd2mt22t76/galorofiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60cdcc522c1b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c927daddf9d---pekekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/mixuwapogakamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=a+separate+peace+chapter+1+quotesPDF 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_off0000dfac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAC 17680 bytes
SHA-256: 2a39d94fdf421671c856da3c64945ac9e3f6f5916ed0a40144848a5d92cb1ea4
font_01_sfnt_off00010d02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D02 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 33d9fbeb66fb0228506c09a0fb09fb59a13e4413669e3861f177e60e97c4b0cb
font_02_sfnt_off00012531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12531 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1