Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 398b35238013f9fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-05-22 03:33:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8cd8f63cea49f3a2a0f310c34b4793dc SHA-1: 9767fc1307199e6b6a070c92a2532a4a2f70cf0d SHA-256: 398b35238013f9faa8cf557eec0e0384cc4475353c6542ec9daca3b799ccf81b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure by presenting itself as a purchase order request form. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a detailed analysis of its specific actions, but the overall pattern indicates a phishing attempt to deliver a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4sqtegrshqcuccu520sgrsodh6/28205381745.pdf
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/jodugorenakunapizuta.pdf
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8q7unnc94nlmgmdqo9vrdmvchb/45863011685.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872a0d9546f---lifolanagejazanop.pdf
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b1a91169b---kajejunigerefiboxu.pdf
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/nujomet.pdf
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/769029b8a65390c047330e1ebd54d79c/82316641056.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859d5d88d53---95167405700.pdf
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828d7ec10f6---kemipirapukubepubovewa.pdf
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e4259618c---gopofujugazo.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa1b87d605---26202216476.pdf
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090be1bede84---xoranimiwiva.pdf
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7510a382d---83225979882.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/342b755c253f73827d41bbd9c3515a6c/lizagedemasizomik.pdf
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/509c17110f922333d2adf7142532a6eb/89909650860.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=purchase+order+request+form+template+excel
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • 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_off0000d744.bin
a4197c259b5af0f900bfb2c6743fd6cbabc323f3ff3c557a10f0eb4661357e8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD744 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea20.bin
6a3ef8759a6674ab2feeef43e733196de9f685a1dd685306f1ae8ecd99ad88f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA20 10576 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e58.bin
b9b00aad0e018965219ffecd5623ecbd903c6f7f088215d6b257fab261eacfd6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E58 17240 bytes