Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb37bd940b1e4cd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:21:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 61c6998876351f62067e6d0402483054 SHA-1: 92c3e950ab3be21cfca600d35bf1480836fb2dd3 SHA-256: fb37bd940b1e4cd1463d2977e8e5fda085e2d3237c4809a5feec8c0cf6263c52
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1fud646c9vjg4ob0t4etpm3f4/81425961687.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8hopogv8l7raoqmjulshuj2ek/37731539331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blossomtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210809_2105408C6C31D0C6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/8942368730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadex.pl/fck/file/benezuvinudumetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55a25b594e---gejomunikekuwozuvunuvis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://putzlappenborner.at/editor_up/lajugoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff7de82894---gujelumuriza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/zatowozigifutulifubixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff5a81ae7c---6378720004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/28185973477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/4597534713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13e5a2f0a8f1fb6f31ae62c83c4f6fdf/97355782730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suankaew.net/upload/userfile/files/81081135595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94fe5acb3f---vexaraxesaxopatufujama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210707055325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it1jgfmcsdhs303ti6uut8672d/dokagapiliratenexeriwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a52d028f4---niripogabuzuxopegomojiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ledesexapozubavemamisorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/90763793220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/kosesoxopinuwomami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aejmo0alc.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/josep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/66377688833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecc06117d7dfc0e919feb606b296b6a5/94632437965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=tamilnadu+sub+inspector+exam+syllabus+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000ebbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBB 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 33e920e7acb395871275e5e8d8ac8476a77501dfaffb2db2a4a6df5b76494f4e
font_01_sfnt_off0001060a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1060A 18408 bytes
SHA-256: 965bd7271ce7b9ec8c495d29223fe9b05f3b19a5f8bb04c99178419d5cfa6865
font_02_sfnt_off000135c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1