Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c372fb7456d0baa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:43:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 1086f2c2f9b4363998eebe7849ce4da6 SHA-1: 4ae74f0778144e8e2a2452c0b1239edf11e0ef0f SHA-256: c372fb7456d0baa6222024164b0ba0d5bd3559b2a55e54d73d65b5634c3d0eb5
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. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it is designed to lure users to external resources, possibly for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd2c377888bc986949db7997f2bb6eb8/17185084662.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6688019d5204768b121b4b140052975/37149926179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39283a4dc8---donodazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ca1904002---xumepipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/surujuxunisowukuwasakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f568cdc68badeff944107b8ecb98c053/67876422563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5q9dejddqm8tpsmt3igogbu6l8/68226848095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e96dd196700db8dd40fbdac805669b33/81616025172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2u54oln0jp90cn1vb0apm02h0q/49201048044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/penatasupolisukuzoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/gaditupalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70077eaa3d8c5069fb40f6ecbef927b2/xeperinovazoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65j7r1ebu5gpa534kqe05b3stm/jubanajej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/nujebatululonotekaneka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/zubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8de834167f18cfe951bb46c5a648698/sigozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/94493922491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9af0bc78c---38561059872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210625_A1F05E07739A1CBF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/navukamamiromagedujezixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/dapikunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/wujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021051208281673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/19741707110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=multilevel+lumbar+spondylosis+and+facet+arthropathyPDF link annotation
    • http://medlab.webd.pl/upload/file/kekipebuvejujafes.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_off00011810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11810 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13022 17544 bytes
SHA-256: cc9f5398fd640674db780588be70f511b3f09c7d8d5d11e0d02f78134b50b629
font_02_sfnt_off00015d97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D97 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 549ebb5a08ceecd4041472fd1dc44b332d59fd0f4e9c9623d9dfbee20856b7a8