Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e38fa35d535af341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-20 21:53:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7bb72d4bde97ba713ccfad760566cc62 SHA-1: edd807bd75f514fa292961b46fe38cfc82dcc898 SHA-256: e38fa35d535af3411d23ad7ae91c628e53b675afa2c62f9d8dacd97a7ddc1cc4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or link farm attack. Notably, it includes an instruction to disable security software, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a159d1aed58b57f8531eccb2ea761ff0/jogufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thephinhmienbac.com/upload/files/74066688484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/mivikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb8d1c1273---sitazetewimufafatosujato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5f5be54b6---miwuxedemavutegijunefegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7a152936b---jemomuwapuwazavoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj14ut61qk19u5abb9cvb20r25/84390234986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c33f5b779f---wovexup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/goses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/95750744704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962814900a4---tugatopesefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703992b47b1---83555149521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/ledafaxegukoxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c65c64dda4aa4de3c7236934c2144a61/91358961507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a0ca8e6a9e---59246377700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/31357790137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/binepugonewofifoboforabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/94164970619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80495d9a861d50db19dead021e9e1594/posezafemadipuxopulofazef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibe5p2h5kja6hf6erg15kmmm0q/88858503146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7675af9ad---58784955964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117eca1a2ccf---84414281660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f751ece55b---7576952616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=regular+and+irregular+verbs+examples+list+in+germanPDF 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_off0000e658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE658 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 6b71308546a52f7b4e67175dd2a227dbc22e13777b308168d60e7913bb710b9f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB1 18332 bytes
SHA-256: 17440cc35430c5e5f4bfa41c373116176f70091a80330a23eb8af9edc77d3465
font_02_sfnt_off00012e66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1