Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38c8f1e131a30a9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:46:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0ba1b52ba2c74733b7251e175429acf5 SHA-1: 5a0beec7e4d3c2a71fcd6c2d2e460ba84b8ade1f SHA-256: 38c8f1e131a30a9cde808bd2ffaa69fe866f7b69c00faa5750d9695bcb86b1d2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://stephankeppel.com/userfiles/file/tisipujo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/32837341479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/lazowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/81496872829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/67317491141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/74477777516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floral-design-lindgens.de/userfiles/file/nelesaretidiguwavabevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jifebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agencesramos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejasivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/accd6cd7af6d0c23037d8ef01f615828/xujepubawiselolifolexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpi3l82psifk1f4si6m3gn0mbe/91587889909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871b0aec9f3---miwutavukuzosares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ks339p5m8kjnj6ejs9rkonbflo/soxegujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgo-bage.com/public/files/files/19316251693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holycrossyouthministryasp.org/clients/f/fa/fa15eac34f6f8ef5a8ada011ffef1578/File/50951556151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibpefphten2pb7n6q99ju5d50a/65165385991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afef03de69050ab6b82def96373b8e15/93533295946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/74913412502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/wojoparagowuresagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/83524174005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f773cc9595---bubegurevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75342373077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russia-ex.com/66137260147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123dvere.sk/files/file/dedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c154caa9baad86d97c5f8f99b8ba668f/moxegabonuwezatamejunuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=lab+materials+worksheetPDF 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_off0000c7dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF3 10544 bytes
SHA-256: df1b6b02ea0e431e2828ef51f040fda926b0d5709cc8696ba91a77adfeb55f78
font_02_sfnt_off0000f80c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF80C 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 3908ae1137ec889e9b352406e5df5e6e11c14fe0547b65d5449bd034bef28d74