Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 837a3d2a0443d735…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:37:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6deab2e2b20f6290bd4e624f850e9523 SHA-1: 21d88ad12a946100500f73a12bb5df85165a0513 SHA-256: 837a3d2a0443d7351efbf0c7d18f6130edd526049c131f6a077c4b0760e4439a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecab0ed593f---36361453576.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/14030089388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caycanhtuyhien.com/uploads/image/files/45174106598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756fe076b4d---63080280549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/tuvavowawuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/jufudifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887444b98c0---39732943531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c431df0c6ef---56514134054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osmed.cz/app/webroot/files/files/bijabitewikixirumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/safalipevifexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53761217687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/timazoxuxitoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad03dc69da81d475a6bb87c706dec7ed/30061099000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/55375361326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/revekumaxebujefapesunuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac752a39aa301d55d0cea6c82b901316/75531014920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chretkinia.pl/userfiles/file/silakukovolaniwoxaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847c4518f73---60156575862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/nidawerikutejemukepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xn--12cfj6cf4edkfa3b0bnvcc0ewa8fd0a7nth.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37530897531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hstupjpdl969l2nmb0ns43jte7/28717042137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/file/5369282489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/78825965232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drumlockingclamp.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/dakodovarubapojobabafapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=d%26d+4e+dungeon+master%27s+guide+3+pdfPDF 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_off0000c957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC957 20800 bytes
SHA-256: 80230cf336da3494787876d1a546988d83dd3a34a28a204a8e1e1dfb742e07c2
font_01_sfnt_off0001006b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1006B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11881 9076 bytes
SHA-256: f695977626623e59fedb2fbedebd468d0acf89ff6f6ceafeb3cee4351ddee6c8