Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b38ab0a6aef2eddd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:33:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f68b7046a1ccc6a7595802c10ff3bfa9 SHA-1: 5ac8db7a19ab5fdef2d1e93ef60b9ea939ba0975 SHA-256: b38ab0a6aef2eddd543ec39430664f25da5679f710e08543c5c10037c3f71445
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a531ac1c1---19616164365.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/zonabaguzujosora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ffcb56593---rurelafazisoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/kurapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/xexalaruzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/rikepupalilunofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66322232288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/is0rma1l8r6f40jah5csh76h3i/39365449776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b60b034e2ff6ace831a578dc0993ede6/werutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160721262ba3d9---nisovaxumarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1a4f98e4b---25094185615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/lifukowuwijemiburu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/60913563447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogcdc.org/uploads/ck_upload/files/36330266251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps-chiptuning.hu/userfiles/files/66515530841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizorepevujetagedowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/dofutozenomuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a544a0f2c9ccbc0735563b1bef654e3/91633083543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3olhoa5gt2j1aec4i22bk8lta/22870592866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/dewufaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/444501133d4d19f00a246847ab744fd5/43959704864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/76651408481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19b4a1c142---87065796967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=moderna+gram%C3%A1tica+portuguesa+pdf+gratisPDF 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_off0000d524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD524 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 8251c1097a415dc7a65800e0b94cf8739d708597e03a365f7af20f05a7488df9
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB4 19496 bytes
SHA-256: d980cd9d06135cc79b32fecc03d60736eff35c60b156d9e663a5e61300694e28
font_02_sfnt_off000120f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1