Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37acc04d76129d1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:36:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d7bc48485e78f116d89907b83a1fd718 SHA-1: 9f3927392da3582dfe9fb98a16a77592431ad133 SHA-256: 37acc04d76129d1f8c8b3dee7ca6ec17a78354d9c396faf95807156e97e68baf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/332d40d52db0689492ad97f2b59ef776/33992650911.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210626_B6C87AEB66EE5DCA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tivatijapan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/80141128136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/70176542999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74510a86c030f56e9e6cd4a45905df34/67253380846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-19/20210619162404932186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bae1d984ff2ba65e952c93ac52bb14b/72081629784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3rufji69au9hu6pdc8fmf3auf/5032944829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d861240e79e821d9e6afd907a4b13d53/85262225739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///51282197809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918f4a92698---valedeliselopujadivimegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c8a95a79ecfa470358a843dc75e476/wituxajowilojubeteganom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b92bcadd7---domobizoborox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f79b24c496---vetagepenupuwovujuruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2a4a309ff---99283979545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/ravisuraloromemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b13c2dd2a7f---gokefupofepegipopizuzumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799bde13e3a---94392387375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/49318035795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/febukabufixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/dipuvobife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kolrmcf4usub5q97th21o4nu2/31705701876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/812301671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=printing+not+allowed+in+pdfPDF 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_off0000e401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE401 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC13 18104 bytes
SHA-256: ee5ace3a3f7a3672501e93bac179f1641b431ecb0fbf213d272613ca5547fdcc
font_02_sfnt_off00012b97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B97 10592 bytes
SHA-256: cfd3240b6be5ae38cc8fd51c2f85e9246e33eff8bafb0c305dec5cfb15616fb0