Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38f76455aa30df3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-08-25 23:33:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9ae8d8beeff98585d44faf18caf7d5f0 SHA-1: 4a7ed745c5086d172fe262fd53d7c2cb6f2f9a20 SHA-256: 38f76455aa30df3f7642894cf0683030af4e411c12ddd64e84ee869726150be8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous unknown URLs indicates a broad distribution effort.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxigil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://newtop-eg.com/userfiles/file/gojamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senn60reunion.com/clients/876260/File/5652796000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonamedicalcenter.com/files/galeria/files/wipalomaxiregawediwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/pitasoligejoxedewudituzix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistralizmiryonetim.com/uploads/file/vatuwetiwaxozidezubisunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/77944691697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honmamon-s.com/img_seminar/userfiles//file/70616375606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcb7357d0f57b042b8990b0f9157b599/32285182820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608501ed3d831---59605552553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ced8c912e08---96922610511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/57045104510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charlotteellisscholarship.com/clients/a/a5/a56794a54ce3a7e2a8fdc514f00cf952/File/pebutevagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/rogezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/59499741251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703585bb3c8---54115433551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082379f225f2---subevidaruxekijaxobuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b78044e9ccf32b80689b483888ba77/53723262367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b50eb858d7c68a17d6f71d62c712ec3/91660523620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968ca399031---16417418820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balassalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29099552914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/witaguvuzopavetejuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumterhigh89.com/clients/863574/File/3465386699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add29eaffed---47548143088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a8d36cd109---44784112902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+working+elevator+in+minecraft+with+command+blocksPDF 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_off0000fab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB9 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 296e2fd659b9d377b50df94b5fde2484034d29e8f34c9750eba79e54e06301ab
font_01_sfnt_off000114dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114DD 21068 bytes
SHA-256: 4745c77410922955604f48826e0a9c89eaea6b056b437592f47d433a9910a691
font_02_sfnt_off00014aa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1