Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38f225640eccfdbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 13:38:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5d79246fb667669cdd01888aa9e88602 SHA-1: 03df158366257cc17fe453af7da319cfbbb87b09 SHA-256: 38f225640eccfdbc931062baa6eee0f6c616451936bb426d0378f6c1e55b5803
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or hosting for malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/fewajesomolemedinomibewo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b030931fbf9---46051249790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/292231f5833ebb05906bc1693d0a7ddf/seduduwebiwelijalokogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b153c8a9ccc---14002238557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/598b84ac4b7f718b7b4fb9d6b8eedd5a/50402981685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c618eea808---95127614230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe1ba1312c---sasatuzinivukudowexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/45803158283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/boiuc2ovc5dhi75f8c55trg32i/bakugimomesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1639ca6b0---17301174368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almudenafernandez.co/ckfinder/userfiles/Files/38082132123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salondebellezaanamariaromero.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/jifanasegelepopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/61052637312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877d76c8605---xidoletuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/71920825409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d2c1ef701---63154249717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/jobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809f6103fc3---51116090225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a021bb912e---34302213076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb1329721e---15222484120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/15936749490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3703d219b8---wuforunozifaxoveres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d389d8970980379eff44ad37aee10e03/5011931188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/62504204289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbkj462hlj06o2o3qdcaqa3lg2/51080059363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb5910c797---midutinanozupizagadenesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+ppt+converter+for+pc+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000c837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC837 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 72e7ecf9bbfc34f0421fc1573f819fa89a764cfb6e1b57b7f057b82e1a091eb5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE054 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF866 15924 bytes
SHA-256: a6fad4ed842dc646a548c01becbcf6c9e4d57f115f808f67e792a534154f4c01