Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d38f3a83d21db0a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 21:02:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ebd7f391f5ef7e9da0ed655975b5269c SHA-1: 8813b007fc440bb93d564da05b663ddc0bd21e54 SHA-256: d38f3a83d21db0a4da0a5a1d1f9a65cf7ca11226e5d8b84090d74b57848de763
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://minjar.mebel18.com/uploads/files/79134875161.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14cdf29eb14651d0f466eb5b3d5f7229/40231543466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liily.jp/upload/file/20210906044630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/86027151084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platcometals.com/images/file/gevokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/tasetofudukozemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwwilson.com/uploads/files/94689612908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/6934053934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148b1c7ee635---gobujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vattuxaydunghl.com/userfiles/file/newixitixijagizedakinow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aalzkj.love-mrt.com/upload/files/37315947725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/tulitasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://80tner.netsociality.com/upload/files/wutimuwunofotowowizetigug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/70859918849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hippocratio.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1078798591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/xijagiragirozunulesireku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ardiinerkh.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/nusefezodaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yalcinsezer.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jolorisanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mentor-tutor.com/newGroserLikeProject/uploads/files/83459565093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/sipesudolabezadizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czyxchem.com/upload/files/45476488144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/kowotexowupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43e3f84f93e3c6a56b1647c89e596d9e/87789097443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://er-trans.com/img/produkty/files/mejunujozepatebexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mitebovagudumivugagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+move+my+apps+from+android+to+iphonePDF 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_off0000eed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EC 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 4a19cdb8f14381f0201804c078bab750d97d627d83b61fadcb05b1328c54b552
font_02_sfnt_off00012014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12014 19140 bytes
SHA-256: 05b00f4e700bd2d2e0a54513a70b80f834c97be8f39a294a65b4593f06e36cea