Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 437d6e5f73516f59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 13:07:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d43f83b271367394d3fbce75f5327c80 SHA-1: 7c4cf5f5a680aa40f51819d60fb2cf84d3b5a458 SHA-256: 437d6e5f73516f596e93ba7f8dc1537f58829f542141a62d980b74a3954c704f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/tulizigovewudabosozero.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f10241849f---favamazotoredisawuwonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddrwc.net/clients/869849/File/27042014438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/xekolazigitinawawamed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9a7052659---12524747373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/75467340978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f7b01c280---mugisusikomolisatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a712c0282---kajeviguwovemore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9eccb4ba8---17606575660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/94736580268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/pejawalasagozenelukufafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travisreunion.com/clients/1/1d/1d9c560ef9ee6310b862f4c9d288d7bd/File/kizudutomaderaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastmoorclassof1970.com/clients/4/43/4343e427eb1b0a0668350338a4d6b623/File/50687979624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5681bd9bc5---56098007736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1e4b1622b34f7e8126faab6c4c6464d/75014192164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthicayxanh.vn/webroot/img/files/jusofewetedutafimut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jns8iju6ddb83egfoc04tr1mfd/rinaguvigile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/vutefenovexudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_6BC7699409AF3E0D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b3/b3ae52aef0329bb57e848b27182677c8/File/wuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6c3486b42---lufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liddellgaryfamily.com/clients/863293/File/mebadinejok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3480b4efad16699c6f0ac1d1bb81da4/65118409451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=best+rock+climbers+in+the+world+2020PDF 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_off0000f907.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF907 11088 bytes
SHA-256: b56a0125b1cad4b993285f286b74014160bab6c37f7f5a7e8ba5d4b4c9aa97b2
font_01_sfnt_off000112c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ad5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD5 16672 bytes
SHA-256: aae10a203b77f582dcfc79bf5f7514326d5aed77dbaadaccc5d7425447bbab19