Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38e35543142aca15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 16:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 2e1f2e6b081fbdf9f20950d40f0200e0 SHA-1: 0795f3dc1dfbf168e88333a64907f3ee24e3ad50 SHA-256: 38e35543142aca1548dc2ccfb90a901d018ce063847233486da5800a004b8cf1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+appeal+to+authority+fallacy PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bq14oklocn29gbtl2nmgqrqcs2/21990527785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68b4009b73102bf3772c9f36e1fa95d8/kirijuwugemirulewonaxeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/lomumexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/surelufepukafujova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ec457f912e8b342a58b983867a4e459/tidozirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/lofuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjjf8mhkfv2tcp6ng6a2gourap/nokamomokizanilizinarutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac644e2a78d---22029212970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodegaadrover.com/userfiles//imagenes/10285062730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/79958343338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pagisefobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qheh9h8ias94q03k2fmi8uc6uo/51197574740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c59a6eacf4---34113538337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae18b7ff3d2b637615384a0de36a099c/26454054660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079133d76a7d---buxigovibewokutuzofiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/supuvudamesofezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fec43d786b9efc091d6b061f09b0f10b/rarunejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dbe5e89d326019f3096947e6dc66005/voxilaguxakogufenosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fda0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA0 5216 bytes
SHA-256: aeabd553f9c7703bfcab1ba7780c2b06ecff7c746c45d05a5391b6aa72b32ae3
font_01_sfnt_off00010f75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F75 10620 bytes
SHA-256: e1e7e0cbb1ab9b3fab17fb37b550a83383a4d39251f2c1ec49ec2f54329e5df1