Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37a42e6cb073591f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:10:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 52d6b51d8387cf2995a563136bac0411 SHA-1: fcd56953a5ecfef66834ba2f77266e822cfe3286 SHA-256: 37a42e6cb073591fd1fac499e014b833c248559cc01935226a2bb7bd4d918dce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, forming a link farm. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, indicating a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xat+previous+year+papers+with+solutions+download+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/10115834904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703067aac46---12205749202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712f0dea0f0---76588712841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaiminhhanh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/tukijukasesagixolutifese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/kukerikolaposemepaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9bf3b9c39---gomefabomolobuwatukizalun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsubhashawale.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulilipelikawamopaxebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/vufeporuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c368080892---16967815409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oosc6u07nqk02msciin0afc061/ropiwijuvufiwedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/63769687343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artetendasud.it/userfiles/files/44949708403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16116cf7a10cde---86083408383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/96960998011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahyadvere.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/98550153349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzxf.com/images/upload/File/98870570355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/5920001451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/64888771641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesmashclub.com/imgUpload/files/20231746993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/vabiruvibafigozetodilemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51fb0ed966c84355f4fe25bf22bc1d9a/82977275662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4b7ba31d61---87905195184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casms.org/atts/news-files/file/finizuxamuw.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_off0000e191.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE191 18052 bytes
SHA-256: d24aa7001371f9d6a4059792ac9052fc32374f5c5a224313d8d8cb5f583cbdb5
font_01_sfnt_off00011036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11036 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001284d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1284D 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 626724cd245fc4d5ff5be876229bdc8d6738e89098659f71116be6783580b28e