Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 937a131096129d36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 04:44:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: fcb21a44af9b876ae11ff4290b0c20f5 SHA-1: 87276e6ddfd658802a81b63b3f594a5a16267cdf SHA-256: 937a131096129d361c5ff0ee2f9cc6bfea1ae4adb3701b5ea83f0097c6866047
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=conclude+meaning+in+tamil PDF link annotation
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82f8b518e6---50293772249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/48824593798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9f4fe8217ece2818808bc1ddd79a8e5/jilixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/nifamalirerekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/34383155938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bcb55212ca6f3e21de5118389f8ba1e/zobolaxodaweremesodugat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073752ee131b---18441265861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/5492909923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728a1d98e2f---18732243313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pn07olspvi95dpluc7mcarciel/68406369416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headlinesdinerla.com/uploads/files/forikuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609625044d9a5---90694019249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0404c294887dc828981d926c577eeddb/43274527570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4050163ae09f6335630043971504b948/dabilavaximoravode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70c8ade760---nowomibosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084be4dbcc34---93886493275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/73338128242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9b52f3aee---3483763646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/kanavowuvitasirovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700c5a144c1---zemosimubadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8389bddac---92230893046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb089f372e---sowefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents//files/lijanunetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/sajomurolete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a1e91f6c011d5ac84346bb91a3cd940/ludubiwis.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_off0000cf18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF18 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 7af53a2960144b413becde48f8add4d4b178f2c4e04ee2ae6ba84dc42f5bec29
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F9 19140 bytes
SHA-256: 0e7de6d500a8b1a9b3dc44b5be8a160ae6ae0f97f796d841ebad743fbef7cc8d
font_02_sfnt_off00011870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11870 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1