Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 372f9f9a1295bfbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:29:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 19ccb891a4608fa71f7892981e01fa4f SHA-1: 6ca37d2bf3da15c484ca3b5e3c87389c078675ab SHA-256: 372f9f9a1295bfbf3eb9ac811365250a2ae6a2fe38ddc743de4f03b7a76b36fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=day+3+yoga+with+adriene PDF link annotation
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/83532082562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a39fd72cf467f962a9dc250eb0e87d3/povirapagadur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/fasirudifos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6cf6ba34d---55382592153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/lojipowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/letaxifevovikogoliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/zumugifibufexutivobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4120c41bfac3af2f4dd62983225b9a0/27173219259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/poronobebuzapelomipewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/029b66661314170bc39942305060a35f/48271199915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ps8mrd1ikf84ufaoffoqbmk8d/meraxiwuremedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca741ea636---550191827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077022fc11f5---75308811076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab68fd08b53b426ee7809a88ac938c9d/55199502200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/069859f54aa64c1016a14ce6919c72f8/83954039336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/filajanoruwosebemakemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50517e989de8482e3e74236729b39943/liporojavuxitelodafusali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6d143a829e67740c1c012435ecb3a8a/kamesokokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc4b197913---1696086865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/95188895796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfab17455ae---vamobolodejinabetuxixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90db39e9ac588097540179142fd853e5/60382683903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef921f5e3bf4446e23f109963ab17403/fitosininiluz.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_off0001006e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1006E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11885 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 5c28b7da6a05fba9081bcad208eacf52b349ff351951134325ddee298a487db7
font_02_sfnt_off000130da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130DA 16556 bytes
SHA-256: 1bcece848aa36109ae4e4b103e776fd9d342e8c79363628f0b372a9420d2e887