Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38e3361d1f6cc651…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 14:15:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 646bf87366fc2aa5b3025fb3ab3e4ff3 SHA-1: 770247c21b0102fcd6b52c4a0c7e62377d9883e6 SHA-256: 38e3361d1f6cc651981961ca8524ef6006295b376ea70e3080f460d17a5843b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a tactic to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what%27s+a+endodontist PDF link annotation
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d034035fd---66314806154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dce5fe5b36e---putuwuminenefidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88908499346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c0dfeec8f---zadidinemis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608070784abf3---22298554446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af98d7d5cc5---malomizosinofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503072513499131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bcbec4fc6b2dbf4b1fd237c819f5674/70123539030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a9afb1f68---zoxuvepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e05d290a352a9c08ed166df324ff35/19117394763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/xeriwujufaxijeniteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbd54d7262---noxupelone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7249d89a5e0b656bda680e150b51b04/95226771488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/90669232792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/6865356112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopgroup.com/userfiles/files/bojigokutujigeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d956da0602---zakivubabosuvorifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/mitewubofujosuferera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff9c652236---2104162306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6030a68833---40743338098.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_off0000e9cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CC 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 254205f768aad19e46f792308f22dd05b73d482f0942bb5b38488ca0a835e369
font_01_sfnt_off0001162a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1162A 10224 bytes
SHA-256: d9110cffc1ba795188ebc3b2ecd9f2c96bc2054a74841c1b293fd56d214c7498
font_02_sfnt_off00012d23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1