Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 386d035a841c9dfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 23:58:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 505859fb7bad37c1a9e13a44202ac9aa SHA-1: c154555d6e7aba1081f8c0cd50d80bc6c327f7e0 SHA-256: 386d035a841c9dfb20aad9f9f77a8fab2d9e24ba3759c3dce7442c2dfeb5991b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a deceptive purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad415291ff---lujapufimebemor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a08ec40a18---94792948596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1961.com/clients/875375/File/fexowevuxodiseluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609515d117f28---loselimaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c07027e98728c9f513406f7089e28bc3/kesoxavekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/siwamonasulikokatotorunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/xonijujibunanenalirobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/wuwaratisewoxakumopus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/97969134146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/wozowapipilawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ba7ccf359---wosan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5c190833d---91115543303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a00759ad8---16093836355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/57230978808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88578d9c95---ditige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c87938a4a---jubebefejikutijejofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0c15efe1e---kuradaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd69d6c1ecb---5596582542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/gixukexonawiwenolagefako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11ef65eae3---45653150488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6146945e4---45144842737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/91890262183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/97170575646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4b5c269d92ca94320c3256ea68d7250/49920399988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=asian+clawed+otter+for+salePDF 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_off00014b4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B4F 18920 bytes
SHA-256: ab1fb29e8635d3a15b631140f39aabd247b25c3f872193f25fd78941a5f1bb0a
font_01_sfnt_off00017d5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19576 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 4fbcd025ceb46e43f7bd615fae67e7b4fe553f36380013de44ce77aee62b1c9c