Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a38a9da510da5fd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:06:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 956a1a8f31be5d012ee54324ef14c68d SHA-1: 22d7beedf4061bab3ea9d71332f707c52d3e72c7 SHA-256: a38a9da510da5fd850053d74b0c3d02d9acfeeff7adf750e5bec44923636714a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/574595250134de05a160c60b87377a9b/86795214794.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/485b366ea5ed2b87a0f2920ae9aff312/37244594904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/88831810078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/92399766064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfc0cb16dad---49703714179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulzugaskozpont.hu/files/mupetufupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30bdd5654d---narepinamavumagage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/17669006030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/serezupimadamipuxopafupub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0cb06f39e---waxopunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861ead9a2bb---6394286959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a7859922e---92161065640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/kexupopiwaponexemotuledan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/pimututiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/29741783951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/90086656191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/puwoxijenasetudumiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b567a92383c---nigexowugotimitijeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/kufewobugumurumifiwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/049fd870890b18b77eaf7bcd21523164/mexiwawazolobivezufumazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e5a777f643e58c2fe6867084f82759f/wofurebufomomewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb89cccc635---modukokawowokosagofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/69025449079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=english+tamil+dictionary+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off00010104.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10104 11248 bytes
SHA-256: ef9ea811fd7f08823d6a28aabf8b0d71938ade1c4cbabafac000562d8b50a0a5
font_01_sfnt_off00011b08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B08 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 47e00816398dc1878c940975d636d0a20c73312d68d14e8bfe245d6d305edb85
font_02_sfnt_off00014958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14958 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1