Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38afc50fd6269a10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: cf9d67c8bee49a11f54cdb6c542adf80 SHA-1: fe7d99cb3591269f091591bb493357f14d4b6254 SHA-256: 38afc50fd6269a10ed80fb0f4daaa47a327de8a3d1fbe173d6da516828eb15a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=california+form+568+instructions+2017 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f483d67798---fafewezupuvumesaviwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwama4.vn/webroot/img/files/lizujesuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/1629367981361485685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/519d4dd020dfa344fc23f37ce6145a95/76828634214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1a47d137b486e6ebe79b885634a06da/52639016716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opc8ft311142buqsbkkdbgtfvk/82834041563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/jejaxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/728452490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/50895870478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/niniwamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/691680963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/30540846344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/zoluradiponizijuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/92013031737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgi34b083atrgebkhu9gc1ltkm/dufafizulanerozonitojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc46187fd8---texolamigebuwanuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119b56091f35---kapekugitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c521ca5c855aa788f0e05419a7f2c17/90758637665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adf95c347a242ee62defeac83bd7e572/40006963073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a4b4df6fe50f1568483a7f608a1959c/lorofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipacademy.org/userfiles/file/pipisat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/resela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c5345574310a3168463f881daa55d4b/34269364005.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_off0000e803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE803 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 3580b83498a64d7c3b632c1cb43341659179a3b92c05e15838ccc287b6140244
font_01_sfnt_off000102e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E4 18404 bytes
SHA-256: 0ec118e165875683517b03b891641749848d626daa36295ddf160a8db9f6d152
font_02_sfnt_off00013224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13224 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1