Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36a76c280f9c80fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 06:03:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b427c1f724ef607242e2be8d02100b1d SHA-1: b036689960a5a7500bc115d54e8cf488ab6d60dd SHA-256: 36a76c280f9c80fabbd750173549aad6d1b03082f9de911c1a2d3d5d5ff053b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which are designed to host downloadable files. The presence of a 'link farm' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to distribute further payloads. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/valez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/piduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/44770576754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d36149bcef---22888252926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/14577399105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinhhoaxanh.vn/userfiles/file/39243192542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00400d9651---bedutebatepekaxezoveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22976246626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longearedhounds.com/clients/65743/File/74420362373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/mavafubexuvubirixubiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2abc51e27ab99b0356669b7127ea0b40/64901826774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42lo0k0qm90frt80vpscdbg5l4/sajulumekagupire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ade758b6ca322e9a3c0c3a847c42c8/31758493607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayjack.com/upload/files/55205005431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfcdrs9etdp7dtqu926klq9cjl/towoxoruzoxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/25588928807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d98aebecc01aaa733c5939276b727791/66673781998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ochjskisiqbc8bmpbfs703i6b3/xofedebazefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86b64f16f56acb9985f9fa806597ec33/30536368505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/jutafitupeder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c4fa3e1f92---fowosunavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1959blackshirts.com/clients/866684/File/86176316994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/89424624542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e563bb2f83---fobezuluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=download+far+cry+3+apk+obb+androidPDF 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_off0000df8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF8C 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 12a1ba6803e1d27565f25bc690e3b9cfbd823cd9a1d3ab791ee64cfbd08179b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f86d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86D 18120 bytes
SHA-256: 57e9e7a8c215c7a792a0dfa5d45d7d4fecf959473486aa5a0ad8b28583c9f4ef
font_02_sfnt_off000126ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1