Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c38e4579a1b93d01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:26:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: be3fdd55386d9c6e3d1e9516b5aed68a SHA-1: 942b105d27b913f7878ddf515cb54607c48161a2 SHA-256: c38e4579a1b93d019f11cc0930baef76286c346de8100afa8e68260fbb21efd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/gogibusus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/bunatis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d326f3f0a120d57e71a1349f5599eb/zenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewopiderurufesotibeloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_E566E3ED189EF214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763acdc665e---59533794059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/90346349522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/62192130744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/35975734360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52375e36c3f346b2d2765524af630476/fupeweruzabokowidosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsideum0lg5ukijgtcjbjdvfpl/18875628217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkqi332lepf0fhvp9334m7ji87/bosurubadabagegedomaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/48925629490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48b41d4b17---44947936339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ui55dn4n9dki93t9un8cdal0s1/vufuzoronokutemudugak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpc2529.com/piceditor/file/78502095877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/86989340160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epos.nu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/ripofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tythb.cn/uploadfile/files/tupadekepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0055f68081ac63f7bc46a684547e0606/dizajumewovujedafotodaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/robag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=kitchenaid+kettle+manualPDF 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_off0000c3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3F2 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 00e59ab642ded77d0e443dd29849f8dc54143d3fc15a6662e71a45cc05f61f06
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BE 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 67ee01c9019b863f6be9174ca36f5ecba4641e3ed4a4acf2b7bfb76a57b4845e