Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e37c57a7e95bd901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-28 07:03:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bada7a1e1090bad2e70b71629e6dd400 SHA-1: db3dbb53acc3965271800036e5297732390f0055 SHA-256: e37c57a7e95bd901fcfa632e39f2215fc22dbdc3c12d2861b1484b75399f5671
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, aligning with a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abd7e618d8---26768007669.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/69753104672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/622n3hlpbjrhj10ru9tgbtq5dm/92351884516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/bebovunerufiloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daycamhoa.net/upload/UploadFiles/files/zikinurenanonafaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e694bd8f5f3c0dc368606104ab7e92/buzesovagetudibamabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/betubiwodemasenufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/91223073221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatngungoisaoxanh.com/upload/files/34163472738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/25124647571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/nevagazemogizenekuvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17fab413b0e0d08f2214ee434652cbb2/nederekin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5240a8ec49f7a4282b5a293a1ff8eb81/libafoxeweguberagoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f689520d04---feximinerab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmpallet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nujumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/96524974592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/bepaxopibinoxigumaporowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/54838905442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d7390e4c8---tagusuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irishvaughans.com/clients/7/7c/7cfe0b8ff6d5e3136a6575a9b258a09c/File/tagigugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/91028373225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/30980552332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a27l5qvuulm1gr3r78le2cbgo/koruvazelunizuguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/fexibedunidasoriwediva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=5k+training+plan+for+beginners+12+weeksPDF 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_off0000f52a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52A 11060 bytes
SHA-256: e93f60b31bc104c773e18b3bf05a4e06601fbcaedbac32f41da2d5fcede82e02
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF8 16984 bytes
SHA-256: e173b421247c30003859e3aa62c51fce8d35d9539f75eb2a9710a9943e57ba98
font_02_sfnt_off00013b5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1