Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a38d0cf9d2c7ceda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-08-18 22:35:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 15a3f65f3da15c1e709faeab1f74c89d SHA-1: 5791b808ac1be10e2a87fadfe9adef284bcae99f SHA-256: a38d0cf9d2c7ceda4ba0a792d0f155c46f876292989992525ab3341de90a5fb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=america+the+story+of+us+rebels%2Frevolution+worksheet+answers
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/85694704562.pdf
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b245612ccca4d13d4c13f6e9c74448ce/medozogekusov.pdf
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c2c2a6ad7---runaf.pdf
    • http://cn-noah.com/uploadfile/file/38968130469.pdf
    • http://playfromhome.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/vajapufujogeletopafelebu.pdf
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/vufexitovorurilazupiwu.pdf
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/29663563441.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ea387473fb95410de9a76a3e17509b7/dasulowodibutamaxux.pdf
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59722994997.pdf
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105c14223d6f---wenok.pdf
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/98637069115.pdf
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/fojadudaxogufugukorilumep.pdf
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/memamujapazufalakabug.pdf
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806e52c08a1---ludifofarezinolagenofo.pdf
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83bccc4853---7974177909.pdf
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/dofaxumetavesazowinizu.pdf
    • http://ucity68.com/clients/e/ea/ea220da86df44fb0ae3b7c8e8295ccc1/File/sikoroxebiporanad.pdf
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/vinawofifub.pdf
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents/files/2978141849.pdf
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/162845249043.pdf
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/90032717044.pdf
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e48677cd05---lerufureso.pdf
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dfaee4eff---ximifixozawobuvesoki.pdf
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/91261790793.pdf
    • 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_off00011bda.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000133f1.bin
255aee00d8c2a9e8a4f3fff121febaff39a608b6de6c455f48df366e00e0423f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133F1 11212 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014e2e.bin
162a4bd1afbaf055de57a973770845f84be149753e6339eb14a1dc17972d2ead
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E2E 17160 bytes