Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b37975feff0a3e11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 20:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cd83b97a63424053014646eff59225e9 SHA-1: f80588af4533d3aa5fb80d9f3c9523d217ad4f47 SHA-256: b37975feff0a3e115124ca23c0f6a3d16c3a17e07af46777b96e978ba7378f03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or downloader campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cc9d3a1febadb2c38a8abcef986ca5c/9645488600.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58f4704ee7b63d77635b8080b84a8729/powanojajibatumaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/29989468151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34j4gmjd35qqplveku8hpf6m52/tasavegixolikebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d12a3e485fc26e105852ecc945afdd1/19292322969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79105186235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d453ee1009---lewexezateduzesugekugipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45b633c83f78b562f93adb18310a697e/witedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202106/files/20210630111713579720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41318049320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607173465ba46---masokoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/27352683733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longhornrings.com/clients/0/08/08da48574b41509ac7bedcf2500dc652/File/48021532653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/zeruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1991.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miwemobakemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/fedodabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9gjlne1gt4adg0gnec44i7o3o3/40628819934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/pofijawenomabixebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607278db4047a---jemagowosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/94968484922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607373db0e288---95370581384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ca24352ae---kazijagumezupagop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamila.vn/luutru/files/bonezutolerasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=8+of+wands+as+advicePDF 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_off0000efe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE6 17244 bytes
SHA-256: c39308e98b8d95fb85467f30041cdb8c4219202aa80d085006d2bb7bb5f064d9
font_01_sfnt_off00011c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001348d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1348D 10488 bytes
SHA-256: fa400ec22f37eb82abcd2038d416a9fe1735bcc157565c0f2afe343cf1005e1c