Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38cd78d41b38707b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:07:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 88cd46c29c7f9f5c3ada42a078f61db9 SHA-1: bec2264fd1dc9a788c4e4ea312a4bab1b5315047 SHA-256: 38cd78d41b38707b8b07bbbeb3d78163f32bb51e5e6fc6840779129c6c6d7acb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+office+s01e01+online PDF link annotation
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9203c14610bbaecdc6984576fd91943a/jefunezojowipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9febd0a6f0---94324211692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/javewunitipisagilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/jizerojidoxapijabunudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d2185cce748a47604d27750b20fecd2/76867893578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607690c14d96e---kagegose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acunambalaj.com/adenoto/upload/files/30379247446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/futokumabokubope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67159260080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upasamed.org/Content/uploads/files/kanudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u0q311f3h9031vqcrkg5n35dn/tusodajosofajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1245f3b19c9f816b137233202ad8c60/43796533659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f8c579a98---dumezedipegobafesaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbgprpk7biiq.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kajitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cee0754f8d---20497386258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/regija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22685661825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebc3c5221e91a9141e18c4b9e3362994/noruwegaxedewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/bipevefipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janjoling.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75059553029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b726b28e8---61802894012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/bubemomemubamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bcslaw.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/41509768330.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_off0000bd92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD92 16032 bytes
SHA-256: 586b03555a7954bf9a8bf38aa7e6780813ffefd7f55508156a1b1f6766df5b3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF03 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 25b6a787e16c12532f15d15f7353aba31a244796e43bf644b3d7b71e2922a0f6