Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db37d2027449ab11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 11:46:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 55289d3fd10a2f93a06d00f3472907cc SHA-1: 78c3508b40b7816ac670823a8d3dd9ff38a019b6 SHA-256: db37d2027449ab11162c2f8ebc2e9e1a633c12fd812450cf65be2d3a9bb13425
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a malicious attachment to click on these deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.sushmitamukherjee.com/fckimages/file/radaduxasawabugikeneziniv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://phuquiland.com/upload/files/77845834457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapientgenerator.ru/files/userfiles/files/27960011611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/simawerurenerimixafamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/46563896779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/96104429661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mami-m.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/93484223653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcompany.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/66637604955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e80841dbf---32259483334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevalleytrader.com/files/20385216127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f06fc09e26---96411701916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpidia2.com/contents/files/53076106995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/godubijeketiwewolanowiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testgit.begurholidays.com/uploads/userfiles/files/todigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee9b88167dd2a6fa50869fa63b255d14/96709364628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67438237351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simsoncantho.com/userfiles/file/besokedubonepesego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/50973143520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwiatmetal.pl/userfiles/file/5884577127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://full814.com/upload/files/15235840294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepodoshlo.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwepifunijajesunibuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objets.immoweiss.lu/userfiles/files/49643590415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/meniremafifafikeganikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mallow+movies+apkPDF 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_off0000e2c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD3 18692 bytes
SHA-256: 22822fc74b27f989681104c040004bb7d34369463381afdacf52761f3284c078
font_02_sfnt_off00012bfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BFD 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 1528cae05106ca85516c379cdd633fe2dc2df5052ad003c4202923374ebc6742