Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 388e5cc412990c27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:02:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f173a082325f9971f3fcc399a89cc56c SHA-1: 81fe6a01cf7988d5d78b27496e8e87b5b96af543 SHA-256: 388e5cc412990c27523a2de80795b5b2a23dfc3a95956e8428bd292446343015
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine its function as a malicious redirection mechanism.

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 http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/24479810520.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765f83b543b---musijimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serge-valentin.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39176626575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/vonoxexuzomuvejirixezul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0861e807ae7ea6713310cd819fdc029d/78900231483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/vekevutedata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b97bc8e4a08f140d1ff20d0a1bd7f5a3/majuwisegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/753db530b281ecebbe9ee2488dd63657/rigabajazerej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7619a2f79e---77798238322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixexikejepatasofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f359c3ec9---41335130218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sewabikiruwibebodesuvadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bkr3h5prjfg9f78f3isj1anv4/12233312501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/23532687934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d31f24280b---4924078469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/206aab639e976ac5bf30456416e3739b/27407434169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2704be3d5e---xitezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/papanewinume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610474c698823---zebidosevote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3a404a796---85470220812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-13/20210813143618587142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/87258490171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bded6ca85---fixavizanojesakipale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc2cb63af6---44039257968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/84199157590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+treble+in+mathsPDF 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_off0000df58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF58 10792 bytes
SHA-256: f66f81927268b61ef9b1b1d84c133accc9e4f993bd0ef5cbb67a0cf0f003fdef
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7FA 20152 bytes
SHA-256: 141e4b9b71f5ec7c1849c7357bb4a96a6560a83aae59ba1a605192d3b1055907
font_02_sfnt_off00012c95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1