Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38b9bb811dce4501…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 08:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 5e31a467b3e1974d3d8767885b4fd4e0 SHA-1: 9749f9bf410e8d1c8328b69152bc83a96670ec66 SHA-256: 38b9bb811dce4501b9c69f6ca82f3b847974eb49903feb69715b0b51d0c19106
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 0.9942

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://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608515735228b---79834461230.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502231951496231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f212d0e7ff---gowuwodikaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fec18b70c---9336711986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b31228e0ad5c5c97f586d728ef0839b/moxogafotad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2519769fcdc3d9aa0ddca8b817608544/nadujerudetukobeguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uaa66k3rs4jfvhvlnsabb9m23o/59928998401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e67b1a000---90187258677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/99317092092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/vivujozonevejetinuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnpair.com/userfiles/file/12413142410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/19296913122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/27533705440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/mixiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cr1vmiqdasiv7ivbvdu8urs5vl/74301849011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b3e767fb9---dovejobuxenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73tr44s19ir8tqt3avkq8ata9s/61400039399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/paramur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandartsindex.nl/images/uploads/kutidewego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b16b5423d---ratib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/59461116177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4e1d65346d---80980844439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8f62f225629d89e27e56bbfbe88edc1/15110950944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=song+of+myself+paraphrasePDF 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_off0000ffd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD7 10804 bytes
SHA-256: bbf651ce624fb530d2d6f78daea6c559ee697c853fbc4ecfa7cda95613d8d640
font_01_sfnt_off00011895.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11895 17624 bytes
SHA-256: ab36e44c82621bc05678e65583723cd620d37d9774a22bf2556c774643253cf0
font_02_sfnt_off0001459c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1459C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1