Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d038922c6abd78b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:03:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 745b8f3a9dc1e2e8da4972500b3a8743 SHA-1: 17499c984d8224cea16e3db844dd9b591fe37354 SHA-256: d038922c6abd78b8f5aec9b54827f79dd0ab88abe2126c5cbdb512416ec86abd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations and disposable domains. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate that the primary purpose is likely to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solid+yellow+line+with+broken+white+line PDF link annotation
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96d7ea579c33a084905f35ebd326e011/36800162578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/fitokigavemisufoforof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848f625c3b0---fujosadurasukuvixezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toddfamilyreunion.com/clients/4/48/482e924d5a052aa4a0c13eb8a30e0bc8/File/87517109324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/96420436189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944348a805a---22135519883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghnservizi.com/file/98975319720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/73162157569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tg9t8f013gj7gnvqfrt1kce5f5/rafozitenalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadamasristorante.it/file/josipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/defenilupilutewuzinivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/sunab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee3de09163d8d670273b4c91d9e52f68/2055485353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elhjgmkobdsioehjo1ukd54l72/jupedukifatazoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/botawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adca139ef41dd3eeb9746776f80a9adc/gaguganovimafelojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57c4843d22c59ebb3929a9de00a897ea/gazimojekenulunefazikeluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b061683dde3---fagufubipokuwazajubimoroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d9ddaf6f3---fawuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/5648055387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/momunefakofoxodeserimore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad92b46650b---15740602296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/vumijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eingangrad.ch/userfiles/files/tanakozutitidaragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfg4mpd0blm51bo22u2ma8phfk/38762140533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/zaturotinunaduvakezim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF279 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8B 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 538162ea8b7e14304a4fc98955e4f6f66fe0e611ffa61f8b828dd3f6f4972e40
font_02_sfnt_off00013600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13600 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 9ef49b93229d1258ebf862624e9cd7b6c93649d20ade3230fa65357db6afdcc0