Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38fd395f01850495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 07:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 53e7f8ba7e14bc89d2b350cc27dd4b89 SHA-1: 92a0bb832d88b2e347a99d8278acff3fc6099df7 SHA-256: 38fd395f018504958c8b79bb024e0fddc6bc6ff443e1fd89a85d5b8af5bc607b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' heuristic and the high risk score indicate a strong likelihood of malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack, likely intended to lead users to malicious content or further stages of infection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=upsc+notes+handwritten PDF link annotation
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/70719396019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8e0ed0037---8473899688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/412a2d640e029e086a602b74368d934b/8683470935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyperasp.net/userfiles/file/29970895045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890b08b5043---xozosuvufitiwaduzuled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamhelios.vn/luutru/files/fawekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/zekamepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpbac1cob04j4adbmdo6i0oql4/jovametumonenerexexepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/53736287302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071989edbc7d---mawejivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fba90ef118---mikapipukejakizutato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f4860f26f---3383201093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817ac18d814---42704619859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/vetopadonatubokedigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/34310156653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ih3bn877n0rhnko2b0s2i7ngli/rebedasuvekewolawekomajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD13 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 8d85d58e89f4f7b67d49c7987b72168627d43ba625e0fc80c6d4ae7abd57800d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dedc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDC 11108 bytes
SHA-256: acd30f40dfa3d9905a9857f6acb046b50e318b126ed3c913c4427405c1f152ed
font_02_sfnt_off000104c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C7 5824 bytes
SHA-256: 1a3d4fed867cf2f449860350c111f4dbf818a5c9d37a9c5b65454cb8fcb85d75