Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36610e661b79e719…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-06-24 22:17:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8bfa2a315d6649d0773ba9020fb86d41 SHA-1: 7f49b353fd93013876565f0a228bde97bf79a8e0 SHA-256: 36610e661b79e719b8b30944f2f0e04a2f875109a19c417695ca17f7b469dcae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a high ML score further indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Lightroom setup download', aligning with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855aba6f9a4---bipovuxazetoxukuga.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gute-reise.ru/i/files/files/mutuwibinilagezofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/jofijerevemajonunotitipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/naloxubukibutape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakes77.com/clients/47041/File/lelaxagitugogumetepanuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/417830644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/93428241097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b13e43a4567---57738353229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e506e3d84df8ed3e00e69c532d394c9b/tifalusotomizitivufuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18001886a0bdee2ecc99aaa67b250c58/22483316103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/13698707875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66693456814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/kowava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8dff77c890e55e8ce1df530eeff9677/71931110730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d111e0f7f6---4055670520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/22179798845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/309c20bd9374ddc2fd0709915e1fb400/39234805706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=lightroom+setup+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E8 5408 bytes
SHA-256: f956b4908951124ae0203eafb643700088dc1a8cb584a789f0b07fac3003ba2f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB34 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 801468c35ddb2bf0410b938194f45dd60056a42b97aa04fe10f9d180bdf15b13