Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c637e4361e0ff7c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-08-17 13:41:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fa1bb2b4f0d72f4bdacc86baaab27396 SHA-1: 01856eb518c67c31fbff69e9eab2655e7c21a02c SHA-256: c637e4361e0ff7c3a7d6edfb801b25e83b6263da61be2f9cb0c10f32d59b8587
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harley+electra+glide+trike PDF link annotation
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9078ab6eb9f4e5c889fdaf8b70ed757b/fokivisokifisijowomapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/75684550425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gat-asset.com/CKEdit/upload/files/5473219310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210721073147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/76773898885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9d113ff0d254dbd04031c5cce287970/16129146496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprintfactoryvietnam.com/uploads/files/jaxorelipegefejizexajigit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/lokifuxobubewabokapovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/15754312672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7b20a4c037630aa1a3af8e2833f3d1a/rirobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cek879uqevavr95l1vdc2vhpim/39397064242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3917348564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodsafebox.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75155376751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18594527776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpitrade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidojuwalojonuresolutare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6726544798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710a06d4c21---zujelawuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b58ee5ea16---34071952752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/vegopekujabufurikubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/35036225546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.umadai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobewitoxodulunulirigutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fed976c126733086898da449474fcf0/dakasoxowalafiwomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguagnoni.it/userfiles/files/lodesakasadunetegude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943b39608d5---kokoxukozexoxamizi.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_off0000d8b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C5 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 8e40cc5dfdf027aa6e41c1e874054467dff336bd6eab501831eef324a5703c92
font_02_sfnt_off00011e4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4D 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 9b5c35a6cd475af45239a55864f97afb7fda069a725fa0a231e0678171238899