Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3537bca98549b555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 06:43:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 625873bb8ce6fe2c75690429b656219b SHA-1: 4b8af8f2fdcdc26f22a3263deccf84382d538d58 SHA-256: 3537bca98549b5555b55656d1ba82d396ad0090804d746eb273b94ec11e962f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, indicating a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=in+its+turn PDF link annotation
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778a336edb8---kowozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc92b3d71ab---55419598073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri0d84rrj8p46gtu25kig5ptr2/79205939861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90af98379---mefedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23853221085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bc2eb7725---80542091468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snmonlhc4cghulqmmnm4tl12l0/15095618001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/barewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85f7c4a963---93279642150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/70074712796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo5meseo2us8aj9fc9f93dcgf1/74275034531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0cae552576---dukekevuwuwizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/zarirajija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dcb1e178a9---vijofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14567599192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021052906334684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754e84542e6---16701510546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jsl88m24chuomrhfhkp6k38rn/ronovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncjvfc5g37saou4sr6iseam4q2/newuresiduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db37b68663---denamiwotupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/umnn52s22k4943efjd3l6ql981/pupulefoworipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d3eab2e795d9ca0985215da8b3d0e90/dulukuduzeruxubufeketar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074405f8cf57---54540714021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c6686b2f2efe8c900b7a52c638d26b4/17023210336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/xubujitewurazomazufisonu.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_off00010e67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E67 18072 bytes
SHA-256: e0ebba197f433e30050c054f2c90a439c240f0ee486c5d86b7d275b9281e6057
font_01_sfnt_off00013dca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DCA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000155e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155E0 9692 bytes
SHA-256: 27b3e91362d8ec859c29b464c20c931ef483dd4e488f46622114054574a41924