Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38f51aef53a7f685…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-07-26 02:46:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 406d3479d5533cd11ba1d5d976f499c9 SHA-1: ddc9d4cf03338c6985fbccf045350ee486be6fd2 SHA-256: 38f51aef53a7f685aa175f9b2c31cb798abca9ad193b2b3589c1d45cd2f8f1fc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://envigest.cz/upload/file/tedituziri.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/xemitateberib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/zomulofodebala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f46a7c594a---nenodoxekateta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/60996498055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i0hlas46ae41m28g32imc9pqb/13436452003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamshs-pdx.com/clients/d/d3/d3c120c733f7363e2cdaef2cff5f3687/File/tirowolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thejosephinebryantfamily.com/clients/48776/File/96101921764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/88988216369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846c20afc6b---raxopovasipipesugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/jevafivowinal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2bc3a9d201---tuvesapowanojagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/firiwaguremipokoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/21962510661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/zejigenalunetebogogisasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4dc37ef7ba---50884685851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/18707240603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xurukevojobemobisigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/vigedifofufarinarivixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6f5f965f8---woluwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3o4697sid72fejpo2tl6gufih/55173641622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7619578677---vuriwonevofasejipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7trrot5k7no5v4l7e9b58uqron/7939744373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940990abeae---dozasadur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94dd36185fd1271826e0b69d083a7329/62676398128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=a+hologram+for+the+king+pdf+download+in+hindiPDF 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_off0000fd5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5F 10936 bytes
SHA-256: bbc110a3d6805f469a18730a47ac8ae3c71ca0acd59b42d2b810596e42e6bdc9
font_01_sfnt_off00011667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11667 18184 bytes
SHA-256: 70e8b458f8c33b7104fec4eea605a780b21fb5b7e2654c2429a04cb0539bb39b
font_02_sfnt_off000145fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1