Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d38adc034caa5dd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 12:04:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a3cf8319a6061103918aa6f7eb45fa49 SHA-1: a3fc1f22259d7edaf12aae3ba920a583d554f412 SHA-256: d38adc034caa5dd3998efc07eb7e9bedef33974bcb3e07275fd5c03e0955e186
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Notably, some links point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a tactic to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://rintoyo.com/userfiles/file/sigarupujomobipuzenexifu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flightshop.jp/images/blog/file/fivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/zejokififebakusaxotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosushi.com/uploads/files/77760679025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corising.info/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210911135325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.arborvitae.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2977278173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/99619690386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wojapimumetori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nscenter.cn/upload/files/26362914048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spzpoz-zdunskawola.pl/upload/file/63402220559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjleiou.com/images/upload/File/jewobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studyhalltracker.com/files/file/46335294803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://invismortgagebroker.com/images/file/1136805081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33393587964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca3dddefe97dc47e99502db8396c7f1/pekomagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/78580296901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306f562a7af---wafidotasotafoxiwokitovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hygradeinsulators.com/images/uploads/file/samasusas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/mujorerevufalulemawoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://priscar.com/documents/files/tamovuzuruwefokukafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecilingirler.com/resimler/files/dizafora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134098a534d6---30482112675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobupulalenuxekojawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=crazy+racing+car+3d+downloadPDF 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_off0000bc87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d49e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD49E 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 86dfc3ed14d67f0c859446f96b2569826f6ce8c10298d230eb1c7c9256587b3b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ece0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE0 16156 bytes
SHA-256: 6f08f8a0f155cc3f23cd6b4da1e57e76a43a1987882053f7d6983fbd21012d3a