Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c937d0872e74bd42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 12:30:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5d99f77c44e1b4097c1dd544a88fd2c4 SHA-1: c58dca4f28183067b41db7dcbc6914f607437ccd SHA-256: c937d0872e74bd42d5f72822f7f15e9d9e7293fa9302d22ec29ba75b0bf8314c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate a likely spearphishing attachment designed to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b32243857804e4d00ce3b78ae4b715e/zeripufinesob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/64779591955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/229276bf01fa88f775b9ee7a54430ddc/6781832570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/13301304011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ou4tau70d4vc80mt8nhfjn065/12927049491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/lilupatebokofuluzazutepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/24503146057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3db66975e80e94dac3b231ca280a3733/50960554680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/dozakutokepovetepanoriku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1bbd98a1e0---xuvujetetexaludedobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c047e72ff29---kedepajemulurako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7921b0881e15be9598465101244828dd/dobukaxotuwinifefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5p5qo92q094hbq02m2afukqi93/70754229520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d60eeefbe5b084e2e1059c4794ceb43/fupozebopinevaluxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/mexenopedodawotokiwobis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d8f12056982694bee53fec463ef148b/38622568002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9rsgv0obf477gqt9fmieq7596/bemodulosojijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/404f55baccd951387bd4586a9edaa516/wiripupan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/nemalepirosavixof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d024d90071f---78909604219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=the+infinitive+of+purposePDF 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_off0000e3cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE4 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 1a59aa5a348c8d0672a569a87caee7a596b82de710edcef4ec9b48a3ba220c28
font_02_sfnt_off00011359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11359 17484 bytes
SHA-256: fbd32243f195235a7d2d4d457e7dd6891c1101fe60266a770943596d863e0bac