Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 838ba10caddb6965…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 19:03:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 538aa1883dcee8499bf622be1f07f332 SHA-1: 22e09a5cc02ddf4f7c8e893595f6a47977f59d13 SHA-256: 838ba10caddb69658e9fd4844130696b1bd8af90d5b2a3d7e440aead64e35828
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92f891bdd7---zutajekapotiwutejata.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jch9aadh7u406eeh4thj4dtpc9/31384899604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekosagimajumemazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a036cc4fda---15040841961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/67031772570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k3edjvsu6oks3k1pekpfhbc9n/kenelagovewobuxifiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/gebogumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/96657279504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c935671e911---mimosifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed8edc480c---kibefuwipufuranuxedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/xilozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27c10239b8---zipisogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/gekuxafofado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/lufojabele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/26510063177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e325d02d9---tawipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichocungtoi.com/userfiles/file/sitopuvebevira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a39fb184d3e89c4fc5526621f66ae28e/sizisetakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=guess+the+fnaf+character+roblox+answersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE884 5300 bytes
SHA-256: e8efd1625ef6d3467b07307d88f5441c4e7488dd67e4182f8355bf571c36ed86
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9A 2044 bytes
SHA-256: dc32a7a1732076c6242b27c1abc9776c4eb501b55897f16170de0079dd892e3c
font_02_sfnt_off00010419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10419 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 51c6a26d8ef05495112266b78d399bdc03384db782f433f46d9d9843a80eb896