Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38f46e5022b76996…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-04 19:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f9af285944d89322b053772d4c596318 SHA-1: d7e6bb6a3681369fc45c9a63c5e39f7dfd45a487 SHA-256: 38f46e5022b76996a82b1c24ba589746ab7411a0a97c8bedc429090278d53fe5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous unknown URLs reinforces the suspicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4b369ab8e9---duxabeleperavetafofopikov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999c2dec01a---40246504402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/57722930646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sentinels.ro/userfiles/file/9969830787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606db9e40017e---bupomuniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/42154565441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semovezinavigajamekufonaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021060410471573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cedd83d3c0---buwumopujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f60bbc18d6---31141076204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/51517196917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/39602696810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/lidijazepofofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1486b1bb89---30144222652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hknmh8qiida81iu3dt75n138lh/58603176456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/luvawaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/60959818739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/46813749447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48fd5c044f---fuzakavan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b871bcf39---xekifulogusubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/99909682910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/dalaludujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/davodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/redoxiwujisomovamepetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=visa+cancellation+letter+templatePDF 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_off0000fc4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4F 10504 bytes
SHA-256: cbe2fb0472264409eded42cf5959c43737760721859ccf290afbc08d48631183
font_01_sfnt_off00011437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11437 16140 bytes
SHA-256: da7c20aa481ecec2740f34c174bee2aa110090553684b64a91af87e3a2367495
font_02_sfnt_off00013d57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1