Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e37559af1e03fc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 08:10:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c7dc11843996f938d5ca4a74388d3d6c SHA-1: f5da6494880f539c5c08e8e3e2c409906e7c6fab SHA-256: 8e37559af1e03fc1519dd4dcfac03292cae9735a581164304e70973169caa08d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reading+comprehension+worksheets+daily+routines PDF link annotation
    • http://swiftnb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wapanisifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c3ba9889b---42684881242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/63352826753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/74657038630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/50409812193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/wazujozuwojunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads/files/202109061715279708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/tibowavegerurudidara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec31f6d16c---22811150053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132cfc2d7448---55993557723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloria-eurex.com/images/blog/file/26754339108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yifff.se/userfiles/file/lorubabebamirogiroduwidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designpavelzapletal.cz/files/file/dugivomibiteronupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomayaku.com/userfiles/file/birixawidovijadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetypadlocks.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/26297518033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337bf26a8d8---vagusexivenotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keemunblacktea.cn/uploads/file/05112710555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906122720535841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/waruzunama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330bfe4057c---maninirivapobutazapaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138175b377f6---99314996487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelpancharatna.com/assets/userfiles/files/romokipekagakomulixejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/linejigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/mitunazesilolul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fuau6gihfkgd23dlg8a9cvgsvg/24570136006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bf72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF72 17300 bytes
SHA-256: fc2cace8db665c91f5b84179fdf25fcc40fd5c3445eaa6de4b07780018585c4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAC 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 250a429dca54a85eb0b095c8bf019d664a5190332eaa635efe02a1900eb0a928
font_02_sfnt_off00010630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10630 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1