Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36a28b5231aa6663…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-07-31 11:28:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 5e10d6590581f455954f367f67f5c71e SHA-1: 02e37b6cb71924aeda1713c80f2c847b39f6ed05 SHA-256: 36a28b5231aa6663778b2ad7a4c273b57422e2f39e8ac4c1cca2705f3ab38fb5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a tactic for SEO poisoning or directing traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowusagup.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9805361fec34e50dde5280bc47c92d07/nipofexidenojener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/xidulabuwowujelapixun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/xinem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/wibedipapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlato-stribro-investice.com/upload/files/gofedote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomuraca.eu/userfiles/files/mosazudimavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c8a8b07d6---vixal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/minijosekozobezegejinemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/15805233328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f97669e211235afe4d89be71151bca4e/54964492901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8s1uqemo85v2lss8l063co9b95/87936708852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media//Files/89781327910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec533ab35cd---xikerilodugavutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/71109394851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vencedor.coop/images/admin/file/92644104390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/dewukujenimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/50420352282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510063317264208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/89616429141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/wepizudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/fubuzanudizemejokesurira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/pitejovelamusituwege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100e3d763cd6---11503181189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=plane+euclidean+geometry+theory+and+problems+pdfPDF 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_off0000d172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD172 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE989 11424 bytes
SHA-256: 64e18444a0558107ae285ef94f2e1193f2209404db9d769b97f94560ada2f85c
font_02_sfnt_off000103d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D9 16596 bytes
SHA-256: 64342d590b59efe9bab2d31e12fff23034ed4d86706d2ad259aafb0fb55a33a5