Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 386626894d1a5a74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 317ba0970445cc5a1e627f9c8ac49123 SHA-1: 306de941046629c1f532550dafd5caa287dbb7d2 SHA-256: 386626894d1a5a7450b3b56b4a6fca82e1874d6b06b1c9cfb1028a1dff28c230
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/82250909172.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9i3k5v25jfol65cr50m41k5fli/jodikanojitewarigopex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qg6rllkh1l80maql3kjt7bkv2c/92608246444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebcba2df970846f7416962c6735da33f/liwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhhyhb.com/uploadfiles/files/sipanofejevovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/7032495080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7a965be079---zixefubasaxipuxisasituma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/beniduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c69b9a6310b6c8f06027e824bb351e39/bugegazoneso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpn1971.org/clients/a/a2/a25689677492d603657f1241a2a69ea8/File/8191238017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/105e31cb4763a4b00553160584890da4/46137495446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/ragufunazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/68423358447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/bufifiwufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb528a40ad---62567943327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16596d4f589d41bba9d612acba431293/34101724409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/tobuziwunetekowuwefoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dubilex.com/userfiles/files/61103561297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e2ce53636---46049614827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/35425744855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/22659263004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/48900517259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vodakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a26d069736a025a55ca1c3de198d1d3/74159988985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=saiva+siddhanta+books+in+tamil+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_off0000b2b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2B9 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 833b7e1dbb434d3830297ccd7f556ca1ac0380f5acb52b363a880721f721dbca
font_01_sfnt_off0000df33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f74a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74A 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 898fa19b944e8c063709a40aa95384120d581aca58f0d2f072323b02ec541a3d