Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 036411aae301552a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 21:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 38c5ec1f074bda9f646d7ccd86b81eca SHA-1: 23f8206325e36c173de3eafe4a72b81f02c5129e SHA-256: 036411aae301552a64f289a644300c56ce462a5404631362210cdc7ef2631326
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The PDF structure itself appears to be a link farm rather than containing user-readable content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/51444095143.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://msvadba.ru/files/file/dagunulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb062294e6---wefavawofalizoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnv6ot837nlcidh5hsabtl694u/riniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0140e2d02---naxulavitofigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/13310420401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infiniti.e-library.tw/uploads/files/dasarijapuwimusipelazug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305cac62729---kakivisitabulada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccshecea.org/upload/files/14501150698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbarestate.com/survey/userfiles/files/2030037623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skazka76.ru/pic/userfile/pipafikigove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/91451080252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/43787293385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhatuogz.com/uploadfile/file/34870588470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/jaxesetutudofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncsccalgary.com/userfiles/files/78062283471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinawin-consult.com/userfiles/gifirov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130977289b81---46180513674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/fukofoxole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kigimex.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bopokofawedekoteded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135226a3acfe---65153019905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab1a5b2a92---madukonutilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/61393653066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duweverabizixanurixalugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=curley%27s+wife+quotes+and+page+numbersPDF 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_off0000c150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC150 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD967 11492 bytes
SHA-256: a007f3410d871feaa8b4fa2ce48577cffe4d989dd6d24f26450027d60660051e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF400 18232 bytes
SHA-256: e2f866708bf9c4b3ca7d6f95023e80aed42f1260b566608265ce9f03ad18500d