Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38cc4873bb30a658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-08-22 00:10:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fd301908421f5737807d8cf4b4cc8307 SHA-1: bfc7e6d68f4e0f8991b5f5e05e9a8cdf9ec753fd SHA-256: 38cc4873bb30a658139a0885483f681de1e5af481528fe57d9d18d78aaa52dc5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or leverage trusted domains for initial distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f83fd6a96f---renemizomibupolefaremer.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/wifizutisalozevotunojutok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/4621641390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phs60sand70sdecadesreunion.com/clients/880504/File/58009234110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fewo-spreewald-schoetzigk.de/brandenburgtag/img/editor/file/jodogibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linkevicius.com/upload/galery/file/37358123889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ca71a6ac2---57882283823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/72001249933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f23a54bed1c---75845923216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/sexelanusowipejozen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3228d4dd5a---80870860321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speakingaboutnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78497376511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f954769bad2bfdc5d1e84aba24417d/mizajepozipige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4720468f4aaeede059b0f7d49b280a3/22626081460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52c56e509c---74756180641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608754630013e---4944938289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhongzing.com/uploads//files/202108061245048561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/43756421380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26cb43474f4e0ce35d9b0885da0e0bff/79545031534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/gukamakimugezakib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8867064041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congnghieptauthuyvietnam.vn/upload/files/kunitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=5th+grade+math+worksheets+pdf+packetPDF 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_off0000c368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC368 11040 bytes
SHA-256: d55197c28a4e3bca52fdd4c4e9fe1f9bd4b90f7e3515fe2e7e8108f84991c183
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF523 16272 bytes
SHA-256: 37d39c1abc70577ffdd5c15afee39194dd9fccd0f5931dc2f9e3b62f31ca8929