Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c37d3d3b8d0c1ab7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:08:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e781a66e77a6bb2becfa219307709ded SHA-1: d8070876d37672dccec6ac93d188e32b4e22b5dd SHA-256: c37d3d3b8d0c1ab71a5d7ec0ae9720788459cabdcf45327a327875e6bde6e260
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=robert+henderson+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://eyela.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/18005265070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72063900869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usa-ex.com/images/blog/file/92667194806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zorugajugumejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/35584902512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kusistoconstruction.com/userfiles/file/mefalemitifiwumidumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/magukezewagukaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/99706660726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/wutidafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profession-your-dr.com/uploads/files/202109121126333624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exito-opakowania.pl/userfiles/file/vanedomuwize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/62215664867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/1955294109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388d4f67e15---34273820703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614402a85f6df---59031757013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phupmirpol.pl/userfiles/file/28849564137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitmet.slektenkaas.com/bilder/file/safeburinugapemotener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhos.com/upload/files/mabitadiloranapofidajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c721012d6---nimumemijujupimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aynispirit.nl/userfiles/file/18744731266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardennes.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8789628951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmsrecuperocrediti.it/images/file/sudegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/58945597846.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_off0000c24a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC24A 16324 bytes
SHA-256: 78719bdaf477a44633af2d2db1bee3c4abedc05d8661b09d9a15161541b519fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000eca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B9 10480 bytes
SHA-256: bc258bd0c625e8b184ec18f4642f24037c50a3f81e38e6840d8e428097695fd2