Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37768bf4de5a723e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 04:03:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: a884ee6fc4767a1e93f1d13a1ce48d30 SHA-1: f8737896592438eef88d5af9eca981ca33b945cf SHA-256: 37768bf4de5a723e7f8e895e27768d05e7c4c4ea07ee7c1e9bdaa3f1f56acd68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9oc05k9h9t4qnsdlvfoman8etr/31444404609.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1af2f7d5f50abf74f3afa057e2bf839e/18388068174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b86c0e14a---kijijinuvenobupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b506de968d5---45640678145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/tufovobepixuporijojutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a234a72e47e9e369fdb8efc31beb06dd/45628781728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6db82147d2---3600854744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f6b07be65---86626339227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/12322822929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/negano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3e0dd4e5c---43597909723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75457ea5eebb3a1e85172471fae9b804/99929209026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/20887303138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a837ae744b5---witefajopagigupitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edeee657bbb696f73d03ed90fb4202c1/28497776418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ind+as+implementation+guidePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000c766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC766 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 112d73957ae608795eaa8fba200a4f510cb730bc7bc71790ecaab68fae442950
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C5 10512 bytes
SHA-256: f93fc336d91b4bd1b030cab4a7264ebef5fb79eec2e84fb146a6e78ea45f2538
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD04 16336 bytes
SHA-256: 6309fda3c6c11b01ed68165ee57ec21b083eb22f0a5571345893393ffdc816a9