Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a38a09069b623661…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:32:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 33b2dbee0059b86cc278eba53aef6e2e SHA-1: bcc26b4d9c5d7c57f9abb463339d0f28ae9f4a8c SHA-256: a38a09069b623661e1fbbef71aae013d81ded44133409dd7a0c7828ef5982b7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external resources, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://thibiditrading.com/public/userupload/files/5896377172.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/2108190204282342479fhri0v38r2k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zididujumagodipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cjrku23kfma26qj5qu45piipn/vigawojizodunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e0e1f4f5ba---93370635083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b8514524a978ccdb2e52e333379e319/xulesurojesobawirakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/gabojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/vezujabilusuvuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/94167395640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er7unct553124mcqss1tggelo5/1157285379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highendteen.com/userfiles/files/44756726366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe8a943b63---72399969618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202105240937421539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/67775142896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610006e48714c---1664538663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/89051812984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/bunewunefuzetagakujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc6a24dc103---87899318378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/wupoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9959af6ca6a923b91431002e12c25a89/gufigevonipudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/girugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3db221252---wazanor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/83553276801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=princeton+review+mcat+chemistry+pdfPDF 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_off0000b5fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5FC 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 3af86218b4771cf414b971320bd3b57c7c9548f658339974297e1ea776e4a353
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD1 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 8bb1e589639cc260e20350e98adaf33ed45210c0efe434e59386b63f6f43e78a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f99d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF99D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1