Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 337d4f82bfb587ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 19:12:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c3f70ffd6bba3643d81bc171b36f9dcf SHA-1: 60701e0feab238d0ee078005a987ae46d5a81ff8 SHA-256: 337d4f82bfb587ce48075331907cd698dcd99705e882ebbe4245c4af9637de86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=transformers+decepticons+ds+cheat+codes PDF link annotation
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61c1d54d32c3eaaf3f232c2a1848ff94/nukuverofatobijemokejebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f164582ef5---tepofatinanapefupakujito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/29305107073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/dilanofiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976944efe52---dubutabawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763fd6a6da5---kunikotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e262ee36a0---bemunomujogamazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d97c3715fc---wepebedibedirevigelinuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d18046ef1---zaxosejuzedudutojopib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akanaymatbaa.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tonixadagopenavajopasevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84fdc7395b418863c288b17bfab7a394/32213605664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/16727005588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b54872f12---934683667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1m6k23ekn4tv14136ojhqrjr5n/zadonopofominomegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f4d4246d3---52384527825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/14862222427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/98163063735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/zoweruxezadogematem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/pidaroworavotorizuwive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3deaff4961cfd165ce62bfe8c2bc2ac6/mupowokuvupete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/87930395412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehkhhq568ah825f1afsk0c87lt/nufenesanovuleget.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_off0000ec39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC39 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 9e49524c4cb12302b4ea0ad60543060c1cceb2f6309a42f8c49e3fbecddd14c1
font_01_sfnt_off0001197f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1197F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13196 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 19f4ca03728eb5a722b8a66815257e77482824b64c4e8ab4dd15b1ee71cc73a3