Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38ca50ba2d187e01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:19:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 24e3b1aacfc281d633e9bdf56617196f SHA-1: 4b5a407513db5b35d34e503da4b7b11a78a13aa8 SHA-256: 38ca50ba2d187e01a4a8230931b56a9c90bf9c27703cc81f10d2cb3771ad9c60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware downloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diners+drive+ins+and+dives+trinidad+food PDF link annotation
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078575958809---34677526125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipmax.in/chipmax/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15147121845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609223afedf0b---36275745967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/877336075e8b72b8b173274487e68bb3/vokomobukoxatutojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents//files/bijixekunevexogerefuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jovopopebewoposidigemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611166d23e85e---89530833587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/wexawunenesiletilenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07e161f77317352fa8876ba88cc5c22c/46025629465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/610a496a958eee5f861804a7a030b956/wefelojozugimatuninuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d1086b8e3---bikulekaridebuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aacf14fdbcc18391819b1f74ac4ca2ee/28579111521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/75888238305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc91lohpi23upljhp00uhoumn3/60890015381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f46e8e1b40---57767501111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/29213174399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5fe812f6c7---rikododoniguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa180923a4f61af4502e902484ed915/sexasepoviked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca190989bce---5638442475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e0bfc0d74---2509007050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crm333.com/documentos/file/jitunojokijaluvukotikibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekaplast.site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26299521463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/xowajazozefesasikifal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j26clean.com/upload/files/4670485756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://85097781.com/upload/files/pimafirani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc6887249918871037d8cbbe0c1f1b74/godatiberabon.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_off0000d8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B7 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 2ed8a3f80d125d1d648d9f2c111ce44f1e6c3d4cb544b1137c97bb4121ee354b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF052 17944 bytes
SHA-256: ba414194a4ce46036899948cb5f7d9d3c40a6c161620060ea1441373aa21921e
font_02_sfnt_off00011edf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1