Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36367973cfad5097…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-04 03:28:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: bdf37302ae3aee5973ed1ef49f8ec001 SHA-1: 53ee087b6f5919b474601ba7096fcf95b1eecf89 SHA-256: 36367973cfad5097758bb990fae58d1d0250d2ee2f38dd10749c659c368b5b7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm likely used for phishing or distributing malicious content. The heuristic firings, particularly 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM', strongly suggest this malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' support a high confidence in a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+stretch+lower+back+scoliosis PDF link annotation
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dafb958da5---vapixepuruzurig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aab7dea10efa0684b96cb5c35b73585/97911578257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098843f72d11---20984182810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59dccc01398bb1f6cc02b9a4fd9b89a4/xafukegezudijoruzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/5784066317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608226b677e05---ronomiwenigefokizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081698e11b42---38560552729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipdiler.ru/files/file/povakuzuzobirinodufex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/fakuwalisusapilufuresawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84c96f076f---95004690442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4ef02a9267---47024379517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd3f328c4fdc0f21af19e16b80d441ec/rabanopobatubujunezumera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/turezakafebivaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e48ae851e---rogodegoxuvoxebip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/25774139848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b67a84d7a---11791754911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5440f14fb---47798370568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/41489771079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/91208898323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef154dc9cd0c5859237a9c89b3fdc60e/16636739683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/dawumajuruxefapoxifuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/115909188360b3fd4dcc8de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24fe0aa8215a25cfc3603e75cf1fcdc/lunesibanavapugururori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/tufuburelodawodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellfoto.cz/pictures/files/tojevepizapokowenuwotebe.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_off0000fa07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA07 10532 bytes
SHA-256: c096e1a23b42b18594d684c3e6694ad3e4c258c642afb5dcf1ee09bef50599b6
font_01_sfnt_off00011231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11231 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A43 16784 bytes
SHA-256: 7a4d80a9ada9f1dee85f7f63c774369f4abc8ec264688c50de84c54df883d04b