Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38c9790554709539…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-20 04:07:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d51c73ae228518985da6788e6c1067c1 SHA-1: 5cf1dafbd3ea4b69ab956f3fe6220db10fe19ef7 SHA-256: 38c97905547095390ae238db3b89993e1e2eb60dbd191cc824f5a17951ac5ab8
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc90e4c808---1198517518.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://henklinders.nl/henklinders/upload/files/83559065940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608908c25c540---11135383394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce2fj6d42bkpmd1a7546nv3k56/89860201438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laweasy.kr/userfiles/file/9511974677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rg3h7c3o45u7sp8rhbm6shkt5/wiruretenex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57d250decd95337fdaf677a0b0b4228e/sikonafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/69222184658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608046df5a805---96566508973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/kelebikumebasujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4332c0c80e4e812a7aaee129752ee850/64188534716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a866442076baf110e8a37c10816983c/dipebunapopaxitekedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f50ffcc362---3095802001.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/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=celes+arca+englishPDF 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D3 3164 bytes
SHA-256: 443f402248599f207afa63b6b51ede4dca3997085486b0f1a133d3c36a7d5df8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FE 4968 bytes
SHA-256: 1b058f7a30157684a443b3336cbb5b97f7e27696738c054dcf6a27bf95417aa8
font_02_sfnt_off000103d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D4 11580 bytes
SHA-256: 815eda97bc609cda94efceeedd6bf4cbbf9d7cbe2b848f09a6c7fa5386bac240
font_03_sfnt_off00012b99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B99 16240 bytes
SHA-256: 5f1bae21bf49ab31a3a31a98e0ad8b0d3280581b83cbfbf1712d2534f7ba6929