Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 386fdf8338c9b74a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:18:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: feca7d9f349861d2332a1cd6fe4d9132 SHA-1: 0dd2959725e60a56d4477f2a92be5cdd0533cbb7 SHA-256: 386fdf8338c9b74ad17dd8f7ba71aaa1e8f71902b34780b3026a904a6b975513
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 a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection suggest it likely exploits PDF vulnerabilities or uses embedded JavaScript to facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bf2367310---5393138280.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/83641614644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l478kenbbumqh6c65spgc570th/18039653822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148ea3a3629b5e4ebc038a6c6675163a/jejelepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/sovomugesejavitokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e9df31e272e1267270d245e60146463/74446727335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c0a728ddd---2679944116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7904c9hogm7pq6nhvb4l823m03/vufurevifuporoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/74783904790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarycochinharbour.org/ci/userfiles/files/ributalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://99shayari.in/userfiles/files/kasevekosikapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vazorarewuvosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/197a09bcbac28cae6e7bc29ab6afdd42/kexojipewefaxulabela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b37a86599bf---lovuditiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/rotolikavijobirigilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-cartuning.pl/userfiles/file/podifexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b80023999c---kufabiripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbe03gpohnc1vijnvd45sh4i5j/bifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/komajojami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/68585089837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt5nnfvl970hug59lgs2vg62a4/koxipodebuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://squarcialupirelaxinchianti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/kowipojogikarowejajijeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/13014915171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/63606260760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=om-d+e-m5+mark+ii+manual+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_off0000b3e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E5 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 25b5a25b2116e826664490580d825c149844e45191b68cd34b11d03069caa735
font_01_sfnt_off0000de39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE39 10656 bytes
SHA-256: e504744ff48e49785a26ab398125bc81138e83ebe7a4f9e4d1e02fe5165a05b6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1