Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38d32953ea6e6ee4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 16:51:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b6a240d78f14495f1f03b19c7a7ad9fc SHA-1: ac2ca5ffb4455319ef76c624e32b59040b3b0272 SHA-256: 38d32953ea6e6ee4282bae10a42b6f7e7cc1e14e789bdd80f35825cf4410f098
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on potentially compromised websites. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+phone+nfc+enabled PDF link annotation
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/pomonifenuzizemavukimek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/kawapafisofuzinidexikipog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vientangluc.com/upload/files/76852780705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santamyoga.be/images/file/kojolujiloresezazajenik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h08poj50jq25t5ui7hamrr4ti0/88864273832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://improntediteatro.it/userfiles/files/vogovukedizunokijin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kroonzuivel.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19687671740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joomlacode.org/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/img.php?file=file/rojaxuridavuwepeletagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d2d136058582c08e9ec25e57cab759b/kavuxemimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/darimizijaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/xasomen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/10762663413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eebfe9c2dbd2caeb6148621a3664c87c/9618639927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/pazafiwemef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1631597249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jekowobavanixuletixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamkr.com/userData/board/file/rupijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/fonotogezizeborafaroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa38fbd469---zimirikuvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/86505875881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.cn/files/nuduzijovuvejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/kukoxijereluveseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68648589190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/579cd8639cb7095139fe4f5a93ba3615/lutege.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_off0000ceff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEFF 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 3fcb9de120c505625ea8f724a4728e37a85574392a9d44c43f4a017174664a61
font_01_sfnt_off0000e792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE792 17588 bytes
SHA-256: 6079de6a5223fd129ec1b82ffa97d406c879c77cf508da0841c8c5ce7916fb1d
font_02_sfnt_off000114f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1