Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38d94729b5483ef7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:18:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1985b95e81362282202127c14056cd1d SHA-1: e5ff741689daf76f273b55dd44b729fcb9073798 SHA-256: 38d94729b5483ef75137ad1e76f3ba65fb7d88a92261583cd4ee993a314c0c41
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing or social engineering motive.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89d31f344d68f07d417107b64237c2e/dafime.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d01aa6abc2---51881536486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/9213239270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landia-print.com/pdir/file/debasibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e8b589a50e6ed7e9fb0a9899428293/numogowebod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/goxikesome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infoegrafica.com/userfiles/files/97866009590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classoft.ro/userfiles/file/gimafoxovakupijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3v6pt5vstrk5fht01cvq7i2e38/pejajopenexanadovuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/51211897380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0048.pl/48files/file/majasamiridegef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88001493164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butagallery.com/userfiles/files/45665731403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb4848bcbb---tudanodosojoxemumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.ca/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/78104639442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/25585118981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dovcc96qasss0jjnd5dqlrhre/vibiniwakivetotova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/58162948910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3o67d0numfrmr0khje07tn3p4/vamijafiladigezirijamip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/tafadepakopexez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f088a845e---950131752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajansnigde.com/resimler/files/gepogukilabaguriseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandfiltr.com/files/file/kamikerularekifojiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=weird+but+true+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000ce30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE647 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 2b76b9b88969c5ef96f284dc9be23d1b4f6112c35a7a10bb1b69289737b8f23a
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD81 18992 bytes
SHA-256: 258d7bc16e1c7443fe4b5b6b549ca5379bc1558660aceeee14a951ee275e6726