Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4737ea62e6f0de8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-06-23 20:43:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6c09d50702abe27e67e3697ffc324e2f SHA-1: 2c7b775f98b75491b2a13f16e5e3780190e10f2c SHA-256: 4737ea62e6f0de8db2a1b35cc7df70b8787a7244b873da262f7a05edc2192a65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that appear to be disguised as software downloads, such as 'slendytubbies 3 android download'. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malware or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae57680f164---fewokisegilej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/74392816491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/vudakepogikumobokuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b11c71c19---70675998194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b58297523---jofipofemexoduludosuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e2f836ade---78658030463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37a3598f7d008f3455ff3be2c6b6ed1/lazakaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852a75cfb83---23249278610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f59c2e9a48---safavakulerujenijarunazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085536127cc0---miroxikerumifozugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/24648580188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/96019450730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5f5d608bce20e0473ebb115f0a93406/wenoviratetutabebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/vazuxajudeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f8a56e40b04290884cd2fc537cf7a1/82666069608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2cd15dbd8---13972502190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/842to6ro4sm8vl0unggstv0816/riwalebusinowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=slendytubbies+3+android+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF17 5420 bytes
SHA-256: cc1f2793f09a9cb50061fa9f726ece86718c52e66af4726ddba395ed8da70d82
font_01_sfnt_off000101a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A2 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 40be57ae77ef7a7502db37b5a3969ea0090e9d9d8ff1b1abe519103e0d64f74b