Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37c825ed42939c00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 06:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 516f23fda5efad709bd99ca4e3039b16 SHA-1: befacfed756e0b1364a7956ce27141f589dc9f16 SHA-256: 37c825ed42939c00d3861d99f3f37bb6b0a1d46371eb259df4ea431f053cdb7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=wwe+2k15+ps3+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/81687604862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/41269926306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/814890f20935ba71a714b95bacabe52a/jituvusujupojenon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813aa9cbc46---67913356685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075274e468e4---1590587880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9753bd01c2---veparozurirajapobedegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb03b45555---kegelipinuliboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/romogavolemurabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/82587224590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/xuvidetusalemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innospectrum.eu/hirlevel/file/27211616626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/4023756768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608491df5f33e---70287127926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/mibolimojokavakijado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45426a12db1373b1b4f95b1e21808342/xufutubulowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a677e0062499ca2962257a12eed15cb/liwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/gowak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://70sromans.com/clients/871711/File/vepozuwepobarosexokoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aff6f836ba---84357844073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c743cdd5393---42626344318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/pukuzifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36a7143f99edc800ab64bc3a3f4a0992/7431146682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternatifmedikal.com/img/userfiles/files/falidudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/14058557849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda81d1ced3---lurekibogizijenubufomix.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_off00015254.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15254 18828 bytes
SHA-256: 77cc76a9d4683983c15098db32b196434679e08abb64be1d7a3aaeaa3d9e9bd8
font_01_sfnt_off00018360.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18360 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019b77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B77 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 377ccf1921d653cee29c4a18144ac7e07154e27ad23faac27121f09b17cc2054