Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f037e87f22bd86a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-18 06:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3555d1de814e18d0277127d293f18e8a SHA-1: 34c7815968ef41412513a2d7e8b4fb23023201f8 SHA-256: f037e87f22bd86a8cd995cab2a9c29378c210fe998f58908217dc9de5e3768a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting it is part of a phishing campaign designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082039978bb4---50232277906.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbg95jn633i70ammgsha695ekh/71016813703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/12023256760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/87353552333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/94777993771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ba861dc55f23a6b89aa05f4de6c1c76/werufuxumago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f28762bb6f---xitaminimenizugoxefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c721acbe---xeporipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///68550899324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/luvuzenavofidepamakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2cb7ef640---12874570366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-27/20210627202453157297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/zaluworexabasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86c684d4e3---65814680095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2a25e652b---86071524612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/375bec7234291dc2d732fccd0fdfd41f/85286664241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcce1be6d7f9b56c397af2d0b832c1ba/xegowebinipumevutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/64567450001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sequoia59.com/clients/867919/File/93711435912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrvpisfvjr5k3bj1oeirelrh84/41427389919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69oerrd1ref5fgmj82m6v1b9r1/simisitoxavufepum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608252ff7f9ab---54568112327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef1ab1ef73edf29f390a767309f7dfa8/kumevafutedokomejiworib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/88761466684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b569e9550---fuguxumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=the+nature+of+social+studiesPDF 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_off0000f906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF906 10636 bytes
SHA-256: cd09f20537916a3d88fb6ae4cc69d9805f4e32939852829ce055c9eae714bd0a
font_01_sfnt_off00011146.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11146 17956 bytes
SHA-256: 958e083d0df387fb8d4077e5ee48c925653fe0e8797689e980d421c2eac9fb8b
font_02_sfnt_off0001407a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1407A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1