Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d38d640f9f098a82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:01:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3f94e00134f1c9b796102caa60f6ea7d SHA-1: 22a45501a0bf71734a7b250659a008a5055214fb SHA-256: d38d640f9f098a82b94c0e35df03e9d3ab3b78e3d5a3859642ee1d8ccd4c937e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. One URL, http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c30370341---17483434957.pdf, specifically points to a compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a method for hosting malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.heksan.com.pl/file/84123184005.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364b7d4948c---8712369750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/vemakurabovoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukhonthip.com/file_media/file_image/file/luxafijinugufigude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c295bbde6f997530ce5bba4e75b1c75/71021422724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021091808261173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soskuwait.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/29242742575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitt.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dogumoxedupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plan.msu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41383991595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/57088613282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strings97.hu/userfiles/file/nisovifisobujis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/41174556634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/26082535543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokususetoxuduwazajixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/mejebagijutofirezavididel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackhorsesc.pl/userfiles/file/lorerodanoturabifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arucax.am/user_images/file/wajilodinutimemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/garaxexuzofogagolebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/zulozexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c30370341---17483434957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agri-mal.pl/userfiles/file/76997210426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e1qp0d7kd5p5piiac9a2tr5m0/jurepaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210918224448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madspot.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60554104434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/gesisagesenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=gta+v+mobile+game+download+freePDF 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_off0000d0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C8 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 92bb88d1af9cf345fb2f498fd785cf6026aefb02b6a23dd6eb43ff86b9b65031
font_02_sfnt_off000101ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101AB 17124 bytes
SHA-256: 654ebeffb8166a7970ee44b8746ac893867021693a7fca19ec8e0cd5f4c21910