Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38e63145e1203f05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:15:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 10c8b996d8891c8c85abc8e76500dc9c SHA-1: bc2e89cf788ef58e7d9ab5f3431e0eee876f0e20 SHA-256: 38e63145e1203f05246c88b18d73c3f3bc684845d85643275465ad36c4b390d6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including an image-only presentation and embedded links to external websites. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, potentially directing users to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving exploitation or redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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=free+printable+missing+addend+worksheets+for+first+grade PDF link annotation
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/lesixozivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwajaxelozibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kodemari.info/data/files/dokivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08c5sok7agog8q7ccn3s7q2mla/merasegaxuzoxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/vugumefasewimozelupexoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/wunezogomisogepanomixetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/6126524231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/49194901742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwetude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a7a8acedc---66199942379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adurucui.com/ckfinder/files/vidabezavuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8f5e12c7a---18384600276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98833601770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/300743177323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.com/upload/files/85587723024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/vamisopirejovunodagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/bevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36283a031608f894fe7ac76f9e5ac953/49201345857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e93d4b92f---39215059838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandinavia-ex.com/images/blog/file/jopogebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123786d2f3c2---54757364923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ae10279815a02d8a12ff2d3c4388894/76436572991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa355ee0f6---86152719108.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_off0000b073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB073 14364 bytes
SHA-256: 7f0aae88d1ce538205a5203efd5d40af4a5d83bc3bfb1db58b613201a0fed430
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC00 11240 bytes
SHA-256: c5461f88561f14017eaa76160ad25943fd1eefd78ac25505260cb5a23e7248dc