Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37fbd2f5787faf6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-08 18:57:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 385e2bf3e6a21b33a43d18a33cfcfc78 SHA-1: cee5848391dbee59532328a04c66c093b6096c01 SHA-256: 37fbd2f5787faf6eaad2373cbd0a2ce8bd758ecd00370d8c175d3813c2045b83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a likely attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing or trojan PDF. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs are indicative of a link-farming or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f28b30664339e76bb6f5fc8b7e5d256/54371727728.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/53511177957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c620b43a0e0---nipuleluwufexutubomoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvhp44ankn5rhkkq80hhed731a/11454995176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/669d717c7357ad0951d0e4eaa1d10ab8/56462650367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed185108f8---zuwutodamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/xunasejemebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7971cc9215---34261301465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20760224457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0f52b4cb4aba48ff185c67faacf5eb2/96467619539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3462918fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aacb6c5834c---27085850580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609891ef27726---fomikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430104807894985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c08e5f48d5cce481e89cb979a6e8c2f2/92328915603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangiahoang.vn/Images_upload/files/pawuvamifuweselojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cc5432cc3---33793368470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/676d4d01b38193fba3f9552f2a51e11f/waruzazumizogujugutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/45688365002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870ce3de134---94612075225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/viduwomixudit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad5220d32a311ad3c095ef30e6a712b/45182728431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permagnet.com/upload_files/file/210802213414649431abf2za.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc37a4aba0c---fuxejaduberufodidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/piwunusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+avery+5160+labelsPDF 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_off0000d43c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD43C 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 4271a3ca36da85ee982e05a88c076bd32e7860f48b290e090ae3c9a9c49cc225
font_01_sfnt_off0001014e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014E 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 8a55b5fce674110718fb508a9bcdcabdb85d547a95c53e0a187bf54ce29c0a5f
font_02_sfnt_off00011b35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1