Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38f6e25849e6a130…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:00:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 23bf93bd1e91b05ce38964388ba86cfb SHA-1: 4593f7c27c8f440b86153851154c5e793299c20e SHA-256: 38f6e25849e6a1304fa13a8c08c28fcf922d8eeaff4254f362e2137a937864e4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites. The presence of external URIs and a raw IP address further supports the attack pattern of luring users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/xatizajulafod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///2021081081256_1015920052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d100cba11d19c5bb68f6050009399fd9/nozoludorug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/41083440886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/fikoxuribopeduza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/11984835029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grancom.by/upload/docs/mobotenapomijorikokoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stefanourso.com/public/userfiles/file/xoritaselojapivewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10ucnimvu38v9frboiilb3ij0e/26940303736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthicayxanh.vn/webroot/img/files/zezupez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/58921422852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7967031b2---33055059424.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omkmorm3nmob97nffofmf1ttio7k2pg6/bejonafideputab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a04f16e21111adaa430c202978a47a86/74191635933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buteboxemexutukolazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/1506681032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111287de0c9e---75923530027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18d4ce7b39---78599069004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/jupijolerobigomoxatito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cccaa90932---fosokizopexaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/121133881ad96023b023ea1cdc282a73/rododelopixavuxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubelsendero.com/img_pag/file/79641376752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stasta.com/userfiles/file/gizurofameruvajeratixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/79442113484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=write+the+number+as+a+product+of+its+prime+factorsPDF 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_off0000e1e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E5 11072 bytes
SHA-256: c5913d98b84f5aff87f020b28494869a3520e2b0d702068160a2bdbc51a243c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001135a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135A 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 06b1a312ee86ea3dcfb1ec10191fc7c9b5f0440faa2c28c3b7549a748d1aba14