Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b638863042d6a298…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:28:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4012136867e9782cb82e4d124c5ca84e SHA-1: 9064829efec809fbd3074ebbe38896407023af4f SHA-256: b638863042d6a29855348b59e858d2cab3b564ab60a7740eb6f7afd9b54c88a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDFs. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781055973b3---90856168334.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05650b37ca1f79385b27fdb3a7c24baf/midajopoteligidore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64739b00ea6a3e0eec98254968eaa6db/93399798819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/xedixafofapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmdtuavcroftjoe7esb0jbvt5d/vejafawanuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/53569499506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sammyurias.com/userfiles/files/novofadozugazikuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b12040ccbda4501902a8fc9dc32fb36e/50046415127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/nodekixekumewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grancom.by/upload/docs/11688381711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///gufuxipizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e896d89f344---vukarosiragig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediliziaunoaventi.com/userfiles/files/76398279962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmawadah.com/userfiles/file/43433310581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f85d7aefefd4eccfe8b3a78cb44551bf/43477101096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612afa887be57---91850200735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f488f10e03af0b320acf7c603d09a665/rowavilin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/jibanotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a64516f234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5081834b80---43897058704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4afa07816c---66232273116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a3467d4be---lewuxowugodogonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/55724106567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=scrisoare+de+dragoste+mihail+drumes+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_off0000d7d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7D5 17764 bytes
SHA-256: abdebff1306f654c4cd57bb526b94401893ccba43417e2cb257be77698e945cb
font_01_sfnt_off000103e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BFB 11136 bytes
SHA-256: bf385cfc55101fae7ed792ec23732d5e91f40a91cde86d66a23ef27d80d7d399