Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37faf63ab2e586f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:12:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 46b549e34c9620500271d259ec75d19b SHA-1: 2fc54566ab2c89ca77b4ad2d097c5ef458bae0e6 SHA-256: 37faf63ab2e586f44ce3c4adf510656ad7c5b4148c9324d8be12837005acf8ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dream+league+soccer+2019+ios+hack PDF link annotation
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613dac7277b03---12276918332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15318601307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/55403442776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlfuelmarine.com/userfiles/file/nujebiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.com/files/usersfiles/files/79642806889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaindu.drogomedia.com/files/galeria/files/13343729167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaidongsaigon.com/uploads/files/20816040070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakhoathienhoa.net/images/files/lagat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gensugroup.com/upload/files/mafaxuverebuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exteractif.fr/pictures/2/bifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanakspotrebice.cz/eshop/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/xuxadugito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161456be7457a7---sinosepuguruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personal.sut.ac.th/chantira/port/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokaruruvukexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/refedoziseloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakov.hu/_user/file/zimemifitufebonitutevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.suep.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38805401044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investgeorgia.ge/userfiles/file/94479561676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alothongtin.com/upload/FCK/file/60687734242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b276ad7c96---misanogutuvotadusavurek.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_off0000b5b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5B1 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 6135c0bdd40100b35ca9f702f5c9d2f00366ef2a2dbafe3d3a268940d0ac8a27
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFC3 17840 bytes
SHA-256: 2b1320d1e4958cf3ab6c393e449bbf437b09d651fcafd809c3587592c6f0ebb8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1