Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c38fac2350f27e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-07-10 08:43:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 48c1d692ba9a77523bdc9e16266817f6 SHA-1: 05e5cbd1240a5f1382cbf741051702abcdbd49ac SHA-256: 8c38fac2350f27e14b5a755e7490b810dfbc491847ca0ad05e2d45f61bab252a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute or redirect to malicious content. The file's structure and the nature of the URLs strongly suggest it is used as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9209e9bd1494bffee3a1ac15b358383f/31966693086.pdf
    • http://lohsclassof70.com/clients/3/31/31ca850ff086a58b81c8700e10a01852/File/21332435896.pdf
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/68207009410.pdf
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841106ac839---14681953959.pdf
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/50859564530.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8712aa0ef7a165460dc5694a17407e/80890115064.pdf
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/69294575445.pdf
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/luwodurekudiv.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcl89uid6ppjb1h80e6toj23nk/kuguk.pdf
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/99119816338.pdf
    • https://istanajp.com/contents//files/jikopozafuz.pdf
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/14524168091.pdf
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/folukazinelizinonorixot.pdf
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc2bf2388d---31270746899.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k750m4jgmclpdf2ofshm49d00q/lijamopepuvupamekukenep.pdf
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/biwitirupizosujimunujuna.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9780d5a99---97274987221.pdf
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745e531743e---10072537194.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc31b37a2b7---69096689023.pdf
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/37007714802.pdf
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7j8e7doevsutbo9geplhtcobj8/79262934922.pdf
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee3d60b5990e1b74622e918bc6ffe04/47812418030.pdf
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3smf6ma9ichdc67o7ihvsdjfp0/veramagukujizuv.pdf
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210601_0D575AF6C427A803.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/91091097307.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=watch+suite+life+on+deck+free
    • 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_off0000bc2c.bin
d2d8f54269e41b77a72a9945456c4a7c6eead43bf82c2f47073e50571a5527e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC2C 14876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e241.bin
68a1b12ae8133aff88c335c1ab094684c84260bf139e68c8b0da12c591794c43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE241 10760 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb02.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB02 16792 bytes