Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab37f730a96057d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:23:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: af5eb8f5d787d88d14f48d56e0fe2e89 SHA-1: 1eab4ea3bbc4f56df5c48e56ac297a45d934dd72 SHA-256: ab37f730a96057d8b75c0b5c701a9d0db9e81d8ad8974e21d6ee7455f7559b5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of numerous URLs, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting tracking, points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cat%C3%A1logo+ilusi%C3%B3n+2021+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e54dc516a---mezodotusoduripeninamuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/susexixevozuzigiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/1644794364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4bc1d5e2f8c010fd32dfc29264a83ff/56587894153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/kukel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.cl/files/feden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7cf40dc3f---65435956655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microsolder.hu/userfiles/files/25805005232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jucadent.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wobexupidalunagujubazopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralgiving.com/media/userfiles/file/25572988613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasmijnbloemengroen.nl/userfiles/file/45527508556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/giwuwolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghinelliarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/mofofabivojejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/17639755024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradoxine.com/upload/files/pisepiwaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents/files/tovunoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashasuchikala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/papadujotafutuwojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpddokohh54e2fou6228jilp6j/xaxozukuvaraju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lwim-ouargla.dz/ar/files/14277736718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtvpuls.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dipuzutivolajudosezukukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgc.to/sites/web/upload/files/11003276100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapalishakti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeresosiseno.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_off0000e0f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f90a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90A 20900 bytes
SHA-256: a978e4d21b5db690998211e1967771b691c2464671ca66fe9fe4b07d4252092e
font_02_sfnt_off00012fb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FB6 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 6102b266f233b5507124346007a906fce1714b5dcd19c961d63c5348cc79ca6d