Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37d2d063c66ee5e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 15:32:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: d61e6ee22c52994f13ab96f51e0e214c SHA-1: 080cae947693e4239352b28095fd73a7c21fcec6 SHA-256: 37d2d063c66ee5e467cd7b0785337d72ae842322f51017fcd6fcd41ab509a402
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure suggests it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content via the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ae48af3d4---siponatixitodutemej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbc988564af---46434186440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/62510774112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731b3ab686f---53708679238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855e8e378e3---47974395451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3792635def641a347b4c56a7c4615295/50972577250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file///2021061823132313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7522d1e38---3555290593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/697554cebffea3e14d2f28f953aa4398/68883076364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d7d441be39e51008edcb958f2bfbe0/zizemifukogolenaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/30725676839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/825444210c3682d1fade34918957ae16/jidizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d22230400c1---fopabutugajuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608135a9897c8---6501081013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c27022d71---pukutifogaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31e1fa094afe401afd98571ab46d8064/7380942319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16199811935572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564b5c280529c03c05b415b7a8bbbbeb/falabagegovitosojoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forspeed.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mijipowavimesizefofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc340d1aeec---witolamexit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/25187767843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/526d880c44f15cb7574cc3c052da82b1/23296705986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3fbe6a8b0---2043338030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/janisezilopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=benefits+of+dietary+supplementsPDF 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_off0000f543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF543 10928 bytes
SHA-256: bc0c03ce43268e7ae70841f97561dd75d3e52f9745665fb33687bbc5935174ec
font_01_sfnt_off00010e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126AC 17244 bytes
SHA-256: a3fa97774d46d89afc6d10b087c98136bdcfbf0df64f270600b15c7cd3fd732f