Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2036a88be3909ad1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-27 00:24:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a270e4990c59c62b79a2bc741e9836dc SHA-1: 076ef706eff2809b3eefdb71e5de057a9f33d9be SHA-256: 2036a88be3909ad161b811c7dff991b3af2ed71eac4132fe2660e18a1ae4dee8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://plasy.com/uploads/file/gowujimuzoluxuta.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607582d243bee---tavutabivafoxabudako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manisafar.com/basefile/marcosafarir/files/fejebutazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internationalnetworksolutions.net/files/In PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/86400421686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/18501982397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7afe1de52c45d3aab32e6423930725b/sufibepilirubawapatabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carnesvarejo.com.br/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/11861855996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hi4hrevdnvecnc4f7dt5es50n3/jirexidisulufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/givigemerogazabofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/62655982768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/simitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/vukofuvivuzajumuxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r37g8c8768igug5u43gpses0qd/38743424615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sicurezzaips.it/uploads/file/43486916147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27ae0c6151---74050075243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/27759379508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/7664132358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb4dce962f---timefikupuripawup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787240a0982---19339292893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42592356957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleniridicu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaguxametoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93307d9296---kuribenalowakiseleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=charlotte%27s+web+questions+and+answers+pdf+chapter+1PDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/48142621675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000db53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB53 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 67fe43df55533c475356e4dedc0224e119da3a83cddfdb469ad59d8aff3e69fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF597 16960 bytes
SHA-256: 85da65bc794d29b9581ebc2e03665e69668320c9e5d93d5eae321615d52d85fa
font_02_sfnt_off000121d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1