Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37bcb795ecc03fd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:05:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: aa725f1c4ff08b5d982657c5b3ffc809 SHA-1: f5d6db120717ee5cc140111f100484907bf51426 SHA-256: 37bcb795ecc03fd664bc4bc389d80447cbbc957fa5e361592d605de97f243594
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs that likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a tactic to host malicious content on seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+of+my+ears+sticks+out PDF link annotation
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/28172862792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210510113437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/vowuwubomeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq2c3njcd9ac7pm24nd3mul9bh/migutajeguxigabovawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835512b2120---66316114907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/73100950534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63dca5bcd1a3ad6b953e57a145b8a096/bawiniwafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/rasin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc1762f518---47605026072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/38722071935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c2d8b55e5---vavevuxiwamobarizisujemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec53c5c698a37a6f6fee6928d0779e2d/patonivukarabinegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/74775753293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsmifoj5iuvn3rapbdfesaqbd5/65692896137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210609211405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff3b0ae1763092f7468585874f5292e9/gugerodele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb1618b374---risodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607892ea4628a---bewizuvogaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609613d16fbe7---77449048539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/jonanujames.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cec1b8e24bda4677d64dc3684f6c375/nanezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e09bea876b8228ca198c2471d5dbe10a/53291774155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/bovibitimude.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_off0000daa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B6 17496 bytes
SHA-256: fa230ec65e861f4dac9f452f597a9a45952c16643030bafc52cf30dfd0c063fd
font_02_sfnt_off0001202a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1202A 10780 bytes
SHA-256: a66f7c9dd19790f428e74f1c7712311d1407e75a94f246746c124639e6691e38