Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e37d2d9c7b1b48de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-08-09 08:42:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c399f25ddbb10b7be654563bd5f1f95c SHA-1: c7f97bb5d6c33c66295b07ac530a680f0957c7ef SHA-256: e37d2d9c7b1b48de2ce8183f1f4560700ad28c9c670a74df34d52aba10fe439b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or SEO poisoning attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuvofobugufifobin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hotelstrack.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/busojilatizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/xobutolixipimefur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouncebodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/xalizazik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megashina24.ru/files/files/jefizukesufutikoxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgc.to/sites//web/upload/files/jerizizixobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qg5rn2dhsnj67i52k96fpm88q/78753878017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/74365312335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082638eac19c---28779481534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yz-yongzhong.com/upfiles/editor/files/xerofupanefopudise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6605bbf1cc---52814561175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qr88vqvguuop45t17c2hclroap/61883038028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f968b0966---lusutijapeladisozofasoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/vipuwejigixusiwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg14hovf26lo7rat8eehjnqtqp/13251238705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609715352db8b---28379976360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springhs1988.com/clients/a/a7/a70db2535ed58991dd9724faf9b165d0/File/devukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/jerigeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/wifomexorizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38d864367c---jakatudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e0b303081---76116005463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f80adf9c7c4---16699078729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=need+for+speed+most+wanted+ps4+controller+pcPDF 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_off0000cebe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEBE 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 36c986cebc81ed9261b403c13db8d461592084f9420bfe5f1999b021925d6fcb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DF 17904 bytes
SHA-256: 0f14dcb54347876b7cdfcec0809207e175e6ef255842b7c0b5238f993055b9be
font_02_sfnt_off00011757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11757 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1