Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f38fae0c4679ac16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 19:50:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 053f371bc60a5c297ca3ebc86e20d3d3 SHA-1: 6c93b2c4cfa9fa7f7818d667b8828ccd0aa0e979 SHA-256: f38fae0c4679ac161ccc1cf8a589922a34815e7acdcb36b354518287e6c62d20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjeqifgr71ufequbfa64kkj5t4/pasidifunitodilumekumegud.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdc656bc56---68240695912.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df20225b95d---welovitejisur.pdf
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/97930653966.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87b5fe0713a66f591847fd4a05da7253/69179089132.pdf
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609733484fd2b---64949130377.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/59648327097.pdf
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874cd67560f---fozozegevomapefewogogige.pdf
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/69649736866.pdf
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0f82697777ee74272c948d18fe7d692/13672321296.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6084d2c558---46029019293.pdf
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d78d5fdb8---36243782450.pdf
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4cfc9a4b81---witefuvazuliboxipulogax.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f30e564e84c4cc6fa9534b9f9b24e22f/xupup.pdf
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210613_024206.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=128+usd+to+aud
    • 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_off0000c680.bin
42c2c68af7bdbae88f0d244eda7522f5bc37c940e487833ec8daf97ee1991e0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC680 17416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f488.bin
1e102d24bd3816b5eb6ca2955f74f22b787c534912b56c90b6503e71c73d984b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF488 10148 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b6f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B6F 16792 bytes