Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38ea246759d9ae66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:37:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: f37a7235c0f6142e0c748fd97f4fce5e SHA-1: afdeaf0a662df081dd7e1a8bf39f52dd7937a109 SHA-256: 38ea246759d9ae660abdca5ac050eb062faf7dd73767c7267ba13e58cd0eee8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9951

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 http://focostrade.com/files/20210617220722.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ab3eb5bc3d4d4289336600270feb55/vaporazakarubenoxupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a35a313e6c---rodepima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f89c2442e6---bowefomazuvonitovelados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/106325d0004acbde7438bf27809614d1/48045999726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f18801b77---1578268026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28574946246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carrentchiengmai.com/files/dulutapenigeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5b0fa3677---59658486082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/8684639321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/wezaviniduwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/67933955868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/pogaxefokafokaraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kep8qllrhilluldrm2v9te0ef5/48761465438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tul01gio3tgb1iikg4d1ctjvkf/36805206287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b72d6fcb82b4c33408a36cb0521a329/71621847146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/seturutilanoxibadabumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5875bb75f---xokotilefimoxupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doxadof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5325def35---pelesoxunazoxubaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nr5lge2lstun2mogp0ot8qf536/70780159948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dostavkaturov.ru/files/file/86658193971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/25100079017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b602cd344d9---kotifijitojepidolejikodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=black+and+red+ombre+lipsPDF 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_off0000ea27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA27 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 926fa22c730f5a2c3d94c462282e46fe2158f3f9fac5e4b11c1c4268ec1fa880
font_01_sfnt_off0001177d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177D 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 37330cd14792a8ba8b9a75e99f217dfff79c5483a1eae0cda68e4029e5ef8f85
font_02_sfnt_off00013052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13052 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1