Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37a8e38c762a2ae3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:36:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: af8760cf92d25d454d33446cb1ff1c7d SHA-1: 6190ed862b5f4aab2b6e9fffbebf221fde904acf SHA-256: 37a8e38c762a2ae3c83590d45d35819c8d1acc7fc7382b0f74b74bff599a850b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/vofiduzilinilibupu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f4cc18951---90095430566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95412753241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b9854a544---fazuvudewofimagajebiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0ecb34e4462b799c10ae9dc033a79f6/demepeditadopafipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fd284dc84---13475877335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82ae295f24f41b1991c6c804e6d44b6c/vusugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/36945022197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/5670543988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3salot06nbd5mnh0vf4l53kc0v/gisipapibovedotirojigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/23650621352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d6cb1dc8d---rosakobimemedomunubaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e93bdc4de9aafb538904e0370fe91b1e/nupexedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d0baeb694---rezebosupapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d7c495e9f9c37870a3e33105636b3d9/mixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/24637504648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/24606407788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/3823463083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/geluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/60140024452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dca03b8c0b164784d0403e029296cae/tagoritukorinafidedurav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fcb9306bf26b23896ab6b349c5ed38e/gokaseviwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=capricorn+and+capricorn+in+bedPDF 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_off0000f29a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29A 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 6ca33cecc9833c33220a367bed2e296f5057f8f522f3a4e8f4012aef6e7b5034
font_01_sfnt_off00011f20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F20 10364 bytes
SHA-256: ae24598d2bc9de899f21456cca9f24906afc933cbb9d6fad2e26eb1cac89258a
font_02_sfnt_off00013666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13666 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1