Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36764c8a23ed4f8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-10-28 06:59:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 705f728528ae2e19dccb297cbb5235ed SHA-1: d51759407ffae956a4e618b2d9cdcd3404332326 SHA-256: 36764c8a23ed4f8d35db073f8513373446a0b4de9ccf277665e04f28d79e3234
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, suggests the potential for malicious actions such as downloading further payloads or redirecting users. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://giaphutelecom.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/gonawotitagojeliwezo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/zosedovowazetowav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348f89c261f---zanotabatategavose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af06173003866e75c7baaf7dca2017aa/47706747335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/nuworesujomamirukonuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320788046b1---momozozilorurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615ea7360d069---11614130939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144142dd13a2---kawigokabajiboru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/bufuxuzuzebazopepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/viwavawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etepi.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73945099722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetds.net/userfiles/file/gapemakiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pizexugovozejolixitiwigis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16170b3ea4e993---kunesezipol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citlak.de/admin/UserFiles/file/2663539687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/24427844648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/pogumedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pro9apps.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/neposofexifobavazipexime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc78c4e2de---78019003232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/files/22555056863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/46013885529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/6214855911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42674b95b4b3507fcf6e2d16ac27ee0d/sowuvimatujevum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16164bac2e5865---wakevakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161682e91243ad---88079180179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.phapluatvietnam.com/upload/ckupload/files/belol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/UsNeCLCzgYg/uplcv?utm_term=mind+mapping+online+free+for+studentsPDF 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_off0000e111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE111 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 450c6ded1ba84d4eee2dea93eeb8db223ff48a56830a2fba880b46cb0ba5a958
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA20 17124 bytes
SHA-256: b929a353cc7278fcc6a842492cc531ed1ad328c212b76baea67adc8086f2dba0
font_02_sfnt_off0001268f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1268F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1