Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37e93398868ae963…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:44:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f8795555f8735b7a5321a8310c518cab SHA-1: 124c6ceb3ca407818824ab2cb362f23bc6f7c6a8 SHA-256: 37e93398868ae963e7107c6fd14652a4a06a530e2f7bacfd2280f71a6cb8b81f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/56164441599.pdf
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/85878727512.pdf
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078aa575304a---77312294549.pdf
    • http://daotaonhaccong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/14944486535.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/45162569947.pdf
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/76993472965.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f313f0c75---gizugumupavorawidigubokij.pdf
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/tugenamepudip.pdf
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/97396250389.pdf
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcjlbc7pp0elnagtvika90p1n0/munopavaxis.pdf
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/36520857281.pdf
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4722c67a59---41628448160.pdf
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/tuwixaki.pdf
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j347v8k3rq8vtsssedj9b5u0kn/nomizobanigusemilafodi.pdf
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bd68a8867---moluvurokarunedukato.pdf
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/katikadudikaxo.pdf
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6284b6ca272c5f8b9f9e1819ab2362f/65541073202.pdf
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/fedigukuzunirevimiw.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608654f1d67cf---fawituvukero.pdf
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2034ebfe40ff6f6be1284731ef4c741c/kewobijod.pdf
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/41329453034.pdf
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///93682972051.pdf
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d02f08a0036---59670163202.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=patricians+and+plebeians
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f948.bin
1f42e0a695022f34aab56295acb3b96a94cfd240ff5d27226b3d095abd09e257
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF948 18556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000128d0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000140e7.bin
a810b6bd027e8389d20e10fcea268064fccb4041dbb90251e4c35fc01b72a352
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140E7 10528 bytes