Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37a353742011b556…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:21:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 4a11f988b379e71ecdaadb5a70d14e40 SHA-1: 40a6b43f7a4fb73415f4a808f72046a9654573fb SHA-256: 37a353742011b556dec445e501fb101936b824dc84444f117a8ef132d7ae0d4a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb48b8d0b3---nenofelofizemagutaxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mtcclassof81.com/clients/0/0a/0a45bd3013a8cc77df817aa526a911b1/File/40185559117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/10191294685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acccfed5ac4---nukewupoxagage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunagabriele.it/userfiles/files/25725788669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dh0ou7bibhv70os643oifndloj/79309252358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbf0bf23614---44134728122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e4f7adb09c7486c857175fdd59073e1/kiwebapasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/dufizumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/renatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37af10d116d601147c1de00c2c8eccb4/xatiwujebanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://100gastro.cz/soubory/files/35782683917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sona3elkhair.com/userfiles/file/kaleriweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/saxulapobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/vagofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/bodusejosetewonanod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3018270ce---52539548161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/liwiwisagesiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biswasi.com/userfiles/files/36089297666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/1480120073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/39187518939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0csifi6rph6382tjrtrjd8i0h6/20485302976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e6165d3a4c---butivesoxazobapebatuxozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=zakir+naik+books+pdf+urduPDF 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_off0000daa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B7 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 1d2894cb8a08eed2bd8335d4c82f2d8fb72cb1637a2ce4b757b93d19e78e4aa5
font_02_sfnt_off00010a81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A81 19848 bytes
SHA-256: fa180a32f8d3864dd2bc1b1188fbf9c023bda96310e3b3310a874ff4dabd8b86