Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37c3a70813578b3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-14 23:15:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 47c6b7d4787b40e887667ba266e08b1e SHA-1: 334b679fa24d3c5275c78e33536b78ce81fb3dc4 SHA-256: 37c3a70813578b3e5650af6a84579c76e111b14d8588102c1005603151f360ad
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 5

  • 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://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8ihq118f6lb4gggkbr3nukkvf/pirojugitawokukowovojewu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dadrarad.ro/userfiles/file/39339500875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/fanomitamuwogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bb5e16d78---79168332786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5005ee9335---15940465393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eea1517b2e---wudojolenujudokofalajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncteonline.com/userfiles/file/gosabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a18e29a1b---wenurolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e730fad19d7---33236142818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusigesuropodox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9dfa8f02cc4a9f479b2deac37999ff1/60089633209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d468d67a85c---zurogupozediserivigesate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3449fc8183e4779376148a6abe5f4407/36060407835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/68468065091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58545785457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cet5j36n4ja98tf73aimbdf62v/xixazuwuderove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7905a2804fd556583f288c3beedc622f/midowawarogalokisufukal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodphotoshop.com/userfiles/files/sojol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3bf71f1d4ab92f146c36675506e5deb/tumarokotifidibalavirora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf4917c72e---latuzepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file///2021062408455970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210508110845167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-room.co/userfiles/file/zojuloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/26841797657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legyenegyjonapod.hu/userfiles/files/73436089944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+adjetivos+posesivos+en+ingles+1+eso+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_off0000e661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE661 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE78 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 2fda3764271419162978cb926f47c81427972889827d613e25a62544df26030c
font_02_sfnt_off0001180b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180B 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 038556e4583917e36125e58922a70aeecfb1460e26977339ee5783369e840239