Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 537ee77a59338a78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 22:32:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 46fc3273da9b7d4b9bbc63f4a4e45afd SHA-1: 6c1500dafecf9d92d933225a89e4863d68fa0795 SHA-256: 537ee77a59338a787fa961b9e29a03eb836c1f3c855fc3936cfaafed3714690f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e0245f638---2944293580.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://regimhotelierbucuresti.com/images/userfiles/3816831885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/76177044934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/29425688049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a9d2d44007792e6ee99c657ccdccab5/12238468020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlefreddieking.com/clients/65037/File/78792040549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a30a8c7f41---69733879909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/kinejafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///dirosapafanexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/771f3f9f7d927cd11d856971d5aff317/99153594985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38dfc71b932d95d76615b218e8204849/36487462774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021070406104551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/dufibufixixiwitasumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nt90vi5qajpqbonbf3fd4nt3t3/famevigukedafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viratrip.com/basefile/travelasreviracom/files/92670024092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/witexamopemofakinanuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce6d2f188143232940b72c4e4247bbbd/14969690857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb642c4259---sasafexirobokababov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wolitoxifagejutelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveforlungs.com/clients/a/a9/a9a80f3a93b7553e0860ec1960497db0/File/tukisilazarutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/238906123608d298241ed3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d884eb107f---wijelabifomivopifozefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/balurumisugixatanitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/nawobavozoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=blueberry+trifle+with+vanilla+puddingPDF 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_off00010262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10262 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 3267f4adc54ef1c9c79a71662234840d027f37b299c661a0c7379c0e0d5fa842
font_01_sfnt_off00011bb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133C2 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 0b8cf200b7c88d089dc0c623081d374db425170208a2370155e395eeacfce3b8