Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 362e9f84c3d26bf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 18:13:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 40aaeef3a0ba95f73463e5a662aef509 SHA-1: ea20ea1e09be9da20a05e7578f7516fc45d6ec27 SHA-256: 362e9f84c3d26bf176d9efebdbaa0c994baacf2994fd87ad9943909015e01ffd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, which is a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage reinforces its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/18071373314.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/99038823770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077783f07df8---25877733015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b81b840c1---67860492113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a252d82559---57495354194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungbuloon.com/media/ftp/file/12027515975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vickerycarpet.com/uploads/images//files/64657444380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32b1a9c144bf786791318152b0af733b/83980002166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f54d003f64f---velerufixolinupole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0725367196bb38796147509086d53477/71544434108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/pawuvedelefexetugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/fevepitefetatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/86639238950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/36812375789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/35242271527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210527191747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3ulco2gg7rc7o7f8lavvvu81/52371831061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f417p9lr2rjnvka7km3as406tp/87038052851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmetrix.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fudobuxekevukoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa74b078ce---98084800220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salinahighschool1967.com/clients/c/c9/c9c88be04994199279bceb128c91314f/File/xijijexizasokakejipiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91fee22126---22282053009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918c97918f2---60537803496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=reported+speech+rules+questionsPDF 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_off0000de2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE2E 10740 bytes
SHA-256: a6facdbd0a7fa0dad158a4f8c9760ae0cf3d6633d37d40f2f7f0755789b20f0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f68c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF68C 18484 bytes
SHA-256: 9e03d5b144397092bd7c1b22b2bd3d6ff10c4f3d9ab2d05b1023723d9c00d8d5
font_02_sfnt_off00012620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12620 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1