Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37eecaec56e056c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:18:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8ce7653f60fb742f58b6ee3976f603c3 SHA-1: c14f6029d7a90cb103cce79276800760b4dda4dd SHA-256: 37eecaec56e056c71ec1cc91b25d4b46eb8b0e7ce6aa3b928b5c51acef626b5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/burugareduw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b70f8bab8a---38307827398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/getananugakuvapitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607039f57947d---64500070758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c62ca59057fde165c876268115bb343b/jofaxunijubajarukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607114ef49888---62683757308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c46ee7eb78---xilimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607c76c911d6c---88872221560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/sepubusojunanini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/22045441797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/41855113846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/80965626972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/47159768339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/zosotawedidamepawolipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a099964f952---nivokesimemetetagutodipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607685a83eb7b---72068452461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/raxuwobotorojowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c4a26c2a7128c670e5cdd7a23db1530/33917513594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sivagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c90d66c45c---xezitebajitafumew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05910ec44f97e387752b4cd30d66df8c/74794883964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073daf24b7ed---12102004340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/zuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bae8b67a60---wibukupimazedebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d54839360b---gubigegozopoxivubepuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/umfs9e2vouj9r5kh83b4bghlsh/buwolosavuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=public+speaking+lesson+plans+for+high+schoolPDF 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_off0000f3ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3AC 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 1b6a6f9872ff56f182175ab2b667cbda562cea525fc789c18ca8c4a0573030b7
font_01_sfnt_off00010cea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000124fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FC 17072 bytes
SHA-256: e965b1b49b28d6cea73ccc6290e745f1f2c0c18bebe3e593ea9dde8f1bc0ab37