Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38f0dc1c2ef9b533…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:17:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7e42f137a1c435f57821ea3f10cad501 SHA-1: 8953fed2dd46abbdefbc410e75b5d5ad74c29736 SHA-256: 38f0dc1c2ef9b5332c6955ebc6112017f7a83a3feab83e2bf1a248df06c95c90
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The sample was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not provide a clear single destination, but the overall pattern suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d383e3b9ef---fekorovifepikomire.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/wimawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202109060305326942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da1674a5ec3120ce178061e0aa6a0979/xozajiwofojuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210912041032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nefogutijozuxerelevikodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigiwexekalusezigunakume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fohow77.ru/upload/file/fiwutalikijufoguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsinphar.com/uploads/files/fuwuzopesifanof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stradatextiles.com/upload/ckfinder/files/79116039960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2167820a9---rusiwesodujeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/41246851376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f365bc1489---12639305791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekobonner.de/userfiles/file/zuzifajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijaetis.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15994343409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/11447396291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210912140329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/gegaforiposenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/xafutisamazugifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunsin.net/userfiles/file/10678378220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przystaneknida.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/gupemumizujovuzebigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161434ab93f728---lebunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realtor-madrid.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/29108270787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zerazazisigotejemogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145bac44febe---60458851917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=flash+sms+sender+apkPDF 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_off0000e18b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18B 17636 bytes
SHA-256: 092acc076076312a4603e0c577a4dd6bce6f3f03e8f74dd6892c184a9f56d7e0
font_01_sfnt_off00010fc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E0 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 462707d9b07a37ad0eb9b2e072b5732c6caaeb545adb24857464360f0375ed5e