Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d38546326647dd2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 12:01:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ce20dca1497eee93823196884fc41f14 SHA-1: 0f0e786479cf6dd2931dad3396245aeabb6324c9 SHA-256: d38546326647dd2f4ffd7e91c6ce204da1016ab131fbf694b42eb7c913209b4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=paradoxical+in+sentence
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092630ae0b87---40932984160.pdf
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/49625549351.pdf
    • http://rajhansnursery.com/userfiles/file/88627813326.pdf
    • http://angeladaniel.eu/uploads/files/nunosaluzanijago.pdf
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47755b58cf---85013553670.pdf
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/wofiger.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca190d72090300d61b5c1df0c8559cce/9214676851.pdf
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1af0130ac5---89662953497.pdf
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/sewuzulozumawuxu.pdf
    • http://ruishikaishi.com/upload/content/files/2021/06/20210614050442.pdf
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f604fce613---bubimovijodadanirumerez.pdf
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c88485a03---41625793176.pdf
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ae821db1577e2659ff077e4a88fae6/sataziwek.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4fa83f1f75---botegogo.pdf
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c088728e740f1257823f258607580343/57599924991.pdf
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4966c8b26ac6f138ff993d865bf1a58d/kazakasegajerezababinu.pdf
    • http://formel1vermietung.de/userfiles/file/87113131319.pdf
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/zavuj.pdf
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///97932757330.pdf
    • https://100tmt.com/uploadimage/files/20210620121055.pdf
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aaa72c0212---topumetanazigozaseroto.pdf
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f74e722332c3d13dc569c5f1ae4ffa0/figudowe.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_off0000e539.bin
20536ced4861855bbdbfd7d22e2e0951033485c432216878f3a3f642c7a754d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE539 17396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011271.bin
d13214a371e802240155c4d3f427f9c907287406164aa6ec1489701f5130b4d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11271 10464 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012a51.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A51 16792 bytes