Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36215d38019c8262…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-08-02 10:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 56593f0d453c8792f8c12ea3532ba2b3 SHA-1: ae4262f80602d231bb33df4358360fadc7b77573 SHA-256: 36215d38019c82626983fa086f6aa2d89763adbb640934ed81d3f5e3e88afe25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://bonacorsi.it/file/kosonajekojigobafesu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/36049333720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b5e88416d---rugalibefowaduvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44090e79369ffcb9040e36a3873d154e/dekiwopubezukumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/fenibofodexifaragevenejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antae.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/wezozizulaxuvugedakimegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5854677cf113475742dede6c08cd0b63/64701598661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutergroup.de/userfiles/file/xetowowalidaxizareno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93f38c72771df49f7d634f70f6297d41/49948966039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30a813844fe5ca9814113eb4fd20d376/bogumobovuxilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexesosunikudiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/81195050671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uks2q2gojhhroc9621tpoqt4pu/telesuvili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklinbristerharveyfamily.com/clients/a/a8/a8910385c57dfddac3c6311e2bd1422e/File/wavezamuraboduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/484703fafe1461e84c7e3c4e4539bb7d/34498339166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jum361cbjh3ml72bnkoat6ff9/roxoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/gilag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae347e8ffc---51428418211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designcoordinators.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f163582e8e---ligokarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c621e19896b85e3b790eb1123d73c4c/66086435299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/51300747495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d184cd534ef---vekejetovujunilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/60405117538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13df8162e02e51137bef0db269dbb645/77626643933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=fram+ph5+oil+filter+cross+reference+chartPDF 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_off00010a48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A48 15996 bytes
SHA-256: 8b309e4f00f19e3baa589410343944e3027e1d28725b1db098eef3af8a42c467
font_01_sfnt_off00013376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13376 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 9fa4d034622077c07be743a3c79016ac6de10c3356d71b7ce262c59499b70c6d
font_02_sfnt_off00014c5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1