Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38ca650c2257c81c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:18:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2b984f095d412d1bfd50f6c3780e0485 SHA-1: 1239a1ef099ec4b84b382d1970423be54458de28 SHA-256: 38ca650c2257c81cae47fd1d618e3578f952e43da405025fe7c5384a459efdc7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised WordPress upload locations. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/744046b3c90ffb5f636392b54d164a32/gawutupulexupekaze.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbp65gntg3npkf6a8nja8bmtm5/sejesazolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ad21bdb6b---69169595926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8bccd59fd9---9231797101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/defr65ekp48rju8hud7gi93864/63964791736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ffc83511f---3516594007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b8d3dbeb783db113436e34a645904a9/fudavutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/7154198598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a596b64796c---56941014943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b7922e304---sulolarewonax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/64618674935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/77237322351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyupsifalibitkiler.com/resimler/files/zurijidirejopodilijenimil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29147374403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51du83gv4564mfkjvcisrit1uc/81680631596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gonhup5hm8ll572gcu5u1iqpt2/84654557011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad206f43a30025bbf1e4010e2e30848/15271545336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/49584220369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d07c65c4e29766d753fcc7d2e44ac6ea/mulelomafududujadavuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/47966771232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc9t670p49l8ir8ln6k76373g5/20394675052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607beb05949d9---48058598963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b224f1e122deeb76eefa3a96fb1c854f/894327546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+living+room+coffee+housePDF 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_off00010946.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10946 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 9b367320323a4c276f2629379ce08122310ed91965e38745b45593f075e9cc43
font_01_sfnt_off000137f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137F7 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 5159db00843f9becba1d0da6571634cc6060ccd19703a9693a331122a1ef52cc
font_02_sfnt_off0001502d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1502D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1