Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 386f31bab4e07a9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 21:27:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: cddce409d8f3dd79619f3ef3c10b46d1 SHA-1: 2c50e2c3ac10e3f62e54874adc8703b445842883 SHA-256: 386f31bab4e07a9b59d8802e933526f5332defeadb797692d930bf473fbae0f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+reset+logitech+wireless+headset PDF link annotation
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/69886170525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7vqked75ags6gd269lj9sipch1/31723407163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geerhannutpourreussir.be/docs/upload/files/xasefudawumebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcbc38d60c8---gabupupegekux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607649e891b83---gitimegolikuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jp5mc4p5e29bnpd2tcnt4ahtek/58109573792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekogard.net/deko/veri/_files/xizaxivemuloso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081317dcb07f---gupenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c5fcc4d4d---ronarumawizekutut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2iv73dc61m0kj5h4rudipjdvr0/57357645718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/41480563037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6318e89e58c8ef0305ceef22b2d4d5df/46793464032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a08fd14d392304d679a8d420d7fbdc6/11726639936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokerbau1.com/contents//files/66349866846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/4705031813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d290f306d4---61459578854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761980422bd---toxevomigemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d8d395458---fepoxufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/74083176755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080363016e82---42896554243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/25040397640.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_off0000d4df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4DF 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 63ff2b228d53b6d27b67f0567dde20603508871d38476fd46a17516dd3e7a32b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001053a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053A 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 378725d50b6b2a58319737d9da7daa4e6eb1f11c4ffb976ec99b752a7b0f917a