Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37ec46cdddc70f9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:36:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 21d248b831ea15dcbdc8f11b3981961f SHA-1: dde7586098252336ac23a0047f56a6def3342f55 SHA-256: 37ec46cdddc70f9c45e0b212d47ade6b2c76513117e63fb4f25f3a9cd98b77b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document's primary purpose is to host these links, likely to lure users into clicking them and potentially downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+9+icon+pack PDF link annotation
    • http://familie-schiecke.de/images/file/33829232325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppe.everybodyisnotdoingit.org/gift/userfiles/files/zizabower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/xumuvemutaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/petupubixixawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hainutedecopii.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/webofunudikimejewifudixup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ea7f5a5391d8fce78818e437e46274d/bososodojefifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/186e7db04af2e90f6d67b45f2cde1cab/10362863627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/41763880595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzph.com/userfiles/file/Fl202109060301242492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilna-ya.com/_userfiles/file/53009091038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://residenciasanamaro.es/userfiles/files/16916115173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210909064834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3741809755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofoxuzunaguxemiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312d9232f4b---91178837471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekon.net/userfiles/file/64735942907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/lofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwizonopudedafedeled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droneducational.com/admin/userfiles/file/40410284712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brincandoeaprendendo.com/fotosempresa/files/14616071463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvq69t5e33dt4pkm6aiej2vpea/61798043118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/94639262994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/45712158976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strongpointmarketing.net/userfiles/file/10142264964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisangka.com/contents/files/jajexotojitalomatemeza.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_off0000e851.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE851 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10068 10304 bytes
SHA-256: faea6f263bdc3cd8b782ed3ede9d4e8f8796cc96fec061886e6bdfb353b81998
font_02_sfnt_off000117ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117BA 18868 bytes
SHA-256: bba83b2a21038467033e0de5ca36c9c656459509eef7119a6c4f21a938f71485