Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37f7b94871a08e1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-08-16 04:48:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 443f7d8960179d14fa291161a5e1d53e SHA-1: 34d8f47c0e7632887c5d13e869b3300721a04e63 SHA-256: 37f7b94871a08e1cc9319f5be2634b9dd1d94441f798c039e62f29f4695ef533
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URI heuristics and the compromised CMS upload link heuristic indicate the primary function is to lead users to malicious content hosted on these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chak+de+india+movie+download+mkv123 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dddbb48681---29058602817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5fa6250d8---26784859811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b93851be364c938820b8bb16c6cb5b3b/85363710514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/35519912893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/jupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaskinfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b798c9f9e2af69c3a5b950a06e4ade8e/File/kixazuliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/69926462154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/kobofixojojogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/12491793990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/warizuvoxiluvuvexidarini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/xizimibilapusufosoxafefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pamukoglu.com/userfiles/file/70725471556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f3d003fcc---55947888109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8961932f91b5ef4942e7126f1f1c1a6/44984655103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3c120d84d---tukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608360565f07b---vilawelodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9712abd9a95bbcdd0aaa116cb26ce73/woxegilelopowoteloxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gw73patriots.com/clients/1/1e/1ed986c9d410becccfd9995a8318e329/File/kezoruwiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6dff237e94---diwogosugafusapamixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gameometria.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/71075174472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/feperakexoraxizo.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_off0000cbc3.bin
209a84b4d2dfaf9ccb0617fa77dbba6973e9a0a666150ad13866d9caf532508d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBC3 10768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e477.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE477 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc89.bin
f6e06fae36ad1abaa501ecefaaf7bb00e5a10d30e710f3dcac1accc910d82414
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC89 16980 bytes