Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 371b258c54176005…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:46:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a5f2a17ce722ce3b09c4973a38cbc793 SHA-1: 9b91f928495477bf08dca1de713a1d2dcab72988 SHA-256: 371b258c5417600507bd33d56be2f301a9d99aee0dcd29e838ef1b4e45ea554e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

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 http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/sodijogo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5503695dae33a8e3d536d7c4f90fd5e/nopijefate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/xidalasogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff1f90da99d15ca0073c219215b25ee3/wulagomisepuxozas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7d6ba7d25---13615429369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607048d9d2574---jawuxebajalatos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/gufologufufobuboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5e0b6d707---lukusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb0fbd63df---tojutadewexifaxomijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/202153012120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00fc9f5b47b9b7186f65f438c89aa325/28177592131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b224c046ec1---94603672408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/5826554324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/zuvixunefixefokanefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/512dee064466c77f1dda9b771112687b/nuledaxawumilamujuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77c944cb3dc152f209ae9b20eae7b187/wubano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvdbo0vap2i67135dedltfg6pu/vutolafuxinewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/46211020123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0969649ea900648a0acf529824755a8/rureseziketojawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608816592138a---fosurotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0404b338abe05876a5c767df0b416527/gegizixagilasojezedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/potinotutipeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=basic+instructions+before+leaving+earth+meaningPDF 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_off0000e750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE750 18624 bytes
SHA-256: b637c7a7def341dd393db5a6018c4be242b228d2722cc98ee1d0fe14e9b72d63
font_01_sfnt_off000117af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117AF 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 92ffba28d74eaec661bf22dfc1f164df049fc3e54c636bf2828bb3cf7db28c8a
font_02_sfnt_off000131a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1