Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38af3795f58c7b63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-06-23 21:02:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 714016ef284680723e82cf245a00cff1 SHA-1: f289ddc2ef9bb7dc4480096fa62dddae1a14c0c6 SHA-256: 38af3795f58c7b633b78d62c024e2aee9b26ae885caedc77f568c73032badbda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to external sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210516/file/62279770126.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a702562b1e9---topovexisosojotagibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/75426647897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e267888613---juxezujarixilinene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b636fd73d6b---felilujilajatumoxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fedd1108b7f7162b716aaf17613d9212/33891934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00d6af91641b4edc8e0440f61fb39008/fuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/71390533102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/xumefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bc2547ada---98408936876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0623ed0bf66caa363a849527f4d008f2/loxazexopiwipatudofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/61136871581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210623004633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/8714420312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba47f1a0f98b04909d75b54422526eec/51963267935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acd180bd20---ratuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn15t32h3t5p6lbfo5qf32phlj/81648629395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/133388352060b985f2c22a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7769dce0d---dulifefubomafuvobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=bagong+umaga+january+18+2021PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD222 5544 bytes
SHA-256: a6bc5357d081acfa4430fa85ac2b1368873d57359f0e3880b7b308d4c625b365
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F4 10844 bytes
SHA-256: e5202ab7f3714ce51a1be43af2667d6994af5b90bd2cbb497b56af775c6abfab