Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38ebf705f0fb41d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 61dab46d7e3ed96dc18750805dfa0d72 SHA-1: a14f5555eb899b17062b2b6e3d2cb1cd9480f0e5 SHA-256: 38ebf705f0fb41d18381de80e766f6a1245c68cf8cffc1fec8820cb75035f514
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content hosted on these sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bme1dri8t176kh469thfvr5o4/21166372572.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9da2900d8---luwetulapujefojibawetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/mukusukiboxagebewabevido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca004589b9---dezugabeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4d9ed5969---82264826122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55b24321eea8291f5d342e7f63edcb71/65672010510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26260d86e1---17292092762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/70784977212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/dafodorosupibukavatatafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7102aceb9---7446583512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortcrimea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35752142838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/sobemudujodofiloke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/petipilazurokabeduvori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0af95fe8aeb29b9391eb1abe89e6c4e/kefutufape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents//files/fogada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/kedafufiperuwokezevox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/zujitilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb4875925b---vupudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094856a01065---69186019997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/71449527768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniontend.com/userfiles/files/37069141183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a952e0de02b---27644336463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/talar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2aabbdb1d---18591659806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/pugoguzisizugekawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb5bd18a6ce0cffa8eadbe9c5cce10f5/bafajezojakegojujapozunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=double+letter+words+eePDF 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_off0000e94f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE94F 16760 bytes
SHA-256: 78b334557707fd358f83e83091675eebfd3f79bbc9ef39ae84b43f5e0d54061f
font_01_sfnt_off000114d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D8 10208 bytes
SHA-256: ae863acd427cf4595f7e4f86d31e3025309b0d425150d25174684e6dd468ce80
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1