Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38ad1a137beecdec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:00:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b2019d352f2ad3aa92aa9aa090cf67c2 SHA-1: 337cadff01e358ad078168c7071305985eaf9eae SHA-256: 38ad1a137beecdec6286e1286ed3f7844fb50b5616a01e8603dfc9cedf336d17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=boolean+algebra+example+problems PDF link annotation
    • https://impactcleaningserviceskc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0549aba21928605ce63b269bf5691816/8400176160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/gubewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210621_09A95EB5BE9CCADD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/kavakinutemebugufotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/32549880502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bostonmentors.com/userfiles/file/kekezowusebavop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfe599f649---86012446030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tskrea.com/userfiles/file/15279115922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/99792162086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2846e97a4c46e3707f9e1535f4c0f359/30895136365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/413362e1bb9191ad4c96c0133ba1883e/25318420871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/pomawumagozuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de5ab182ef2---54750441462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///tusulomugawubiped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/68548024761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0498ced154d01e45a139842cfda9c312/33230888278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/18628129597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/5358525975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b341b22e55efc44913b32ffeda58e3/79892261955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhtgrefaa427h3rb1e9iq0erdl/rijiludolojugoxeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdsvieclam.com/upload/files/64725007288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlt3fjh47k25bdndnqr5cakbf2/wexusigizulez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/52056239072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/xuzipanivejusiwofejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb89b8316af---jupexagabonin.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_off0001a9ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A9CA 21012 bytes
SHA-256: d3fa09108ab9dde27cc2ee1c4e37680fe732f7d9bf0aeb913c7e8941c4d1b29a
font_01_sfnt_off0001e20f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E20F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001fa26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FA26 10700 bytes
SHA-256: f80f5bf5e801910c365f7ee8a20276de49c9de5abcf370160f03d3a1f51d8031

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