Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 538bd475777521a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:14:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 267cbb528329b84843b60aaca707daa4 SHA-1: c0f88852a40ee265035b01bcaa7600a5499c3a10 SHA-256: 538bd475777521a386d959d4304f9bb2bc05b7ca5dc722bff45db2eab01fb13b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware delivery. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614056eeefbb6---69461462655.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bapassamarinda.id/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/19764797348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/ximadov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakkue.com/contents/files/lebafufilolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumigufasofejesidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/tusozenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicasoftavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/xotizikimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6932919563454108d2b62c34a608f54/88346870631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142e7d655b05---50705293179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202109090325259359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__613ACD3109D58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a229878e96---rifiguxoroxurizenejaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatyab.com/basefile/bainbookcom/files/74724845086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprenda-atdi.com/uploads/files/54024405192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piti.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/kuriromabedevitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/3975180680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137427a06fe7---dumulunegazubilidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3658892130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/digirugewosinemorazezabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa88617763951f5270f3232e1347e553/punolukejowuzupeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/tufejonomoretogoxaxanetol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/48702998958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/fexikajitewuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/jikavuvogukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=android+open+network+settings+intentPDF 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_off0000cbfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBFE 10516 bytes
SHA-256: d0082aa15b77e5ee8c084f32222236a45411ae93cbda131c7d253ef73dcbd746
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EA 17368 bytes
SHA-256: b27e31b396844e1eb002b7df6330f1756a156680851d9f474fc9be8a93b82776
font_02_sfnt_off0001110d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1110D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1