Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36831eef284b86ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:44:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fd9bfb9460e5341f4210f5decb932eb2 SHA-1: 07e6b6f6ba36e13f8b969bec84bcacf72af252a1 SHA-256: 36831eef284b86ee94c2eeacee038063c5dbc200e86f23db0e92728573ebc61d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=student+solutions+manual+wooldridge+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kimyasaldubeller.com/upload/ckfinder/files/36957484219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freshchannels.com/home/sites/freshchannels/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekenidiviwipiwozolupife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trinitysportsandleisure.ie/userfiles/file/tanotoguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutunuxuzebebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/sudotusudumogade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c76544d46---90418523974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tech-sub.com/userfiles/file/wevoxepaxiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifafokomegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/sasedizunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/15478732074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142b5c41afca---senut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-premium.com/user_file/files/78988312879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/rexizakowixoragadunibolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designpavelzapletal.cz/files/file/naforufudufoduxelumimevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngoinvest.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/nuvuvotelavirubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/31917748532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74724606629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144d1d2974f6---sajirazovemofibukogokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basketaci.cz/UserFiles/File/27386804631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/15874028959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/josuvedokepubobasekasudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bexudezuxirulosefoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetyassessmentsolutions.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veximurokuxerun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salespate.com/userfiles/file/85610544508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388b92aab32---45527134168.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_off0000ba96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA96 11100 bytes
SHA-256: c69ecd75b5cddf8ba9a2723ae06f16cdefab7021d82995267c4a8c886aee61b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d44e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD44E 16660 bytes
SHA-256: 6a66d4cc0df57aed2af6c82d6e0356f796a3d8a6e54b6a53847da6f39fdd901f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1