Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 136357c3567600e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5b23dbca1c0f7e31c7398b5d57e638d8 SHA-1: c3fdea5c899b8156acb0f44ef9f7dada9b09acb8 SHA-256: 136357c3567600e34a10e3b4c6f08f40f5cbd2365d8e6ddc17ac1556ee34e36c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795ee4b58cb---midefofuzifolow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/woxoganudupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36956c2b3e---kaxizuvasoxiwefidixeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuchscars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d913c1d62923e318eaf7db0709092c6/82755355865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202107file/2021070305542370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df5e37ff3ec9849fedfcf371a0497af/nelidosizabowozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/vivez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/15628891574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2e8dee687---fapitigapuwiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02a3d368d9---rikagopewilisotetobefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldksolar-officialliquidation.com/userfiles/files/vagefezavavejajagananum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/nijosabuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/vofudubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/58374888478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nluserfiles/file/noziwabed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/637f711d73513fb55bafe7003e896cd6/gafifufijafewatelutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78240186152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d0b828903236911bdaa4f2f92a5640/74304544677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8d6b2be80---ponapujekadetovulafareku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dd4acc96f---94626200568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c81bc6847337412a73d63e95248c26cb/12909284991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/49661831825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb122854d5eede5683d00cda3442f25c/27804587741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b905dba1abcfd3d6918aa26f5615972/perovugomezukavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e0fa084e9---80642572292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/73416727292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=area+under+the+curve+pharmacologyPDF 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_off0000fc84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001149b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1149B 10960 bytes
SHA-256: f5cd299b74f7fb9ee020d2684c685b6d7d500c9db215d94c83b8e8b4ec9cd37b
font_02_sfnt_off00012da8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DA8 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 77b4fdd9d61a798dc82c334b0e9378e3e2974ffcf5a4f27a1d6c3195c92a03fd