Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38bf6ecd3d072c12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:43:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ee6abfdbca49af32655d0a78e93f71f6 SHA-1: b7f344e33bf867f6ccf0000dacb963c1d08a795a SHA-256: 38bf6ecd3d072c122eaae979a076253cc1ffa5be71fda1cbc4523ffdd013dca5
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristics suggest it's part of a link farm strategy. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://ankaraeksioglu.com/resimler/files/86752623240.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55971367857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/37254300828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaineyranchaz.com/userimages/42165091217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuichi177.com/uploads/files/202109012201179836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahnil.com/userData/board/file/70502859117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/97676812597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyela.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/34230146555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/64402678086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinhorelli.com/userfiles/file/minag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/xijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-cornevin.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7751535536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da81411e4e---pedas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke2ctpu2gin0ns404ctoqdsqv2/15754963535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c84cc0c632---46271413115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ebenisterie-burette.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waleziwogilufedowejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/podalotari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gad-elhak.com/userfiles/file/teninisizetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nassagroup.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50881519899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dogwoodagility.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togugaraxapetiwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/80021807601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///rudajawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/dobuxegosezovuguvivokabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=malayalam+ebooks+free+online+readingPDF 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_off0000eae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F7 18412 bytes
SHA-256: 1caee116342a74e686e675ef58cf4788666926b39c5f98cfaeac0e74b02d96d0
font_02_sfnt_off000132d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132D2 10940 bytes
SHA-256: e65d0a183f825997a96fe9fba0485204e64acfdf55f7841f1b2528010be7ddfb