Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c37ec063e4397eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.1 KB Created: 2021-08-25 12:44:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8c4907ce0c1e9024e4b0abb68e5e6f97 SHA-1: f6df78682b5fdd6c8c6d3366c8cb60f17c52dd8b SHA-256: 2c37ec063e4397ebce48bbc53c894324347999ddf42a4bc5f421c92199e07e20
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure victims. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=honey+cross+on+tongue+spiritual+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/16590981249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalcinoni.com/userfiles/files/19523072565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/salarugatajapubunotir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/lafetumofilekamiroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d0ab16957909e17d9c0cd77b41b50b9/vuwixobukepibara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-ookuma.com/js/upload/files/57521627813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/66897018998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th91lmtp4pd151s8qk7iujdp36/75723834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3030da903---26300035111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/kagewuwonatagaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ec9d3c6a1---88171151089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d5f981f0a---25820595785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/87710882122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/bijakeridusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608616db1d6e0---97502334383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/gebiwevedudaxezawal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rafaellucenaehijos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66447678122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/90624054474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indikino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gopuwopukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/wuropi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/bojemazisufenevinojule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4bf7aa8d3---pugalutovuzanoxezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b7c2b932a---norefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00013fa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FA9 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 486e0d230466f44175463fd928b47b8d3c96fb79c5a9a6aa5daff8e6a835aa9f
font_01_sfnt_off00016d14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D14 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 167ba85c4f81e3072133bc0337f689176771c1a3025a5654734faef8c8f834ef
font_02_sfnt_off00018666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18666 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1