Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 538338f1a0d8e7ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.6 KB Created: 2021-08-04 10:16:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d6c27319d24a665bd0aa118d071ca904 SHA-1: e12060aee027923eb171dd84670d73a3b7e8c944 SHA-256: 538338f1a0d8e7ca35d86b39e335e540c56bfb9494f37724c0fafb9980bdf202
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=strike+force+heroes+2+hacked+unblocked+games PDF link annotation
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607604ac4b972---gexamoromutosisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876110ba226---82724603974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d359b1cdf50---61186013780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c589abc1fd---wunolaboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2055385b66---doxakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuexehochiminh.com/userfiles/file/30809740672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/23297922432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/jakefetavom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchboys.org/userfiles/files/vezesulifafokokagewus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f02deb2cfad6e15c11348bdf9e5c9a0e/34551183726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/lunamefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/98324064832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/wunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/99395801114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/77692481691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/xugabenobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942154d519f---98419944369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/saxupaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/20226978602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/55322050338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1cf9fd2694694191b475ca73d40c701/rigodulasigosuletewodow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609863141eb38---rebalediwazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/nujitosudojopewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e7d54c9ed---85832181918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd5fe4af3c7---puketavefofixibod.pdfIn 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://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_off00014e17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E17 19920 bytes
SHA-256: 03b3b705ca0868c380a41229763c09820d7771c1167cb3fae0739b1a7c70e7de
font_01_sfnt_off00018152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18152 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19969 11452 bytes
SHA-256: f4b99b646e6e7e83d5c839b9f310b90716e56113a4f5b0386e7e9363a8c98939