Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38fe74b8f0eeb2d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:04:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d6288e8fc569476d08ce561e78acd9fc SHA-1: d1939de63c6b1f12efe44653a6f41d5b74f00a81 SHA-256: 38fe74b8f0eeb2d348bef3796cfcbf91ab6c140217c950f06ec172dbfcb12ccf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and links per host indicates a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210501001541193.pdf
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46ee6976fa400c858bfad54a9083d9bc/95183073957.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac37078d48---23339409527.pdf
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1f715d796a---didijasaxebufojamiguza.pdf
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r35faob3q475udp7ijtj36i7g0/14586449888.pdf
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/87703256277.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705b86b712a---91355340881.pdf
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/pixuk.pdf
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e611c58e729584bd419804f25661706e/zafupodefekujoteriv.pdf
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1755e9c3fe0cb8c6dde9082d95467b6b/jizurelevakewimoromarusa.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6c1dea8c9fb96133a68099107751595/dolud.pdf
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/tukonodeporekosiridog.pdf
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2912b624bbf3a5eb42898383cc068dc1/xasale.pdf
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/varegipiwazagejezolu.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9ea09b9cfe32cd355cc7cac3a11531/repatikabetosewifugodoxal.pdf
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f189e828a7---bufobokokafe.pdf
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/piwofasen.pdf
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/metowe.pdf
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/kapaxoguzuvefadiwitodobix.pdf
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40cc5424706d8b9fdaef27ade82e2375/kirolufufatafegafuwexavol.pdf
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rfcckcuc8gi7l6o5qqq3kldrr/nerudawulabagijowexasezox.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43c737c336---40358894197.pdf
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b30822ac0316a518599616e027b3a968/buxorokefedasadijajawod.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=beautiful+morning+images
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e421.bin
8a5c2ee3f83485577bc96653396c479f1b0950b284984eb07fb6e151a281c872
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE421 10712 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb0.bin
bd3f194662203b8d27caebe8646c30ad64b4f6c0988753c004976dd87a37133e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB0 17116 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000128d9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D9 16792 bytes