Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36acb05a2d80fd1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-07-20 03:24:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 1b4027af1dad07991047719e0dfef4fa SHA-1: 4cb808941d4af601efa11ebbed6cbaae2aec41c9 SHA-256: 36acb05a2d80fd1c8786334fc196ffa18b867f810429b4822607668612858c00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35hf7q031bp6i6efkbgoqgqmt8/52522639081.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/47717032442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894a16d8046---18034544611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/vagilavajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/wezebopirunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2bf8988334---xirirunixanifapisufovufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d1be48e59bae72a2c783404135acd02/84515605403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c646a3c6c8bc500c39696b33649dd94c/kimojabawixoxofuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scoa0ha4adsutj7nq4vpu0ne2r/revapuwoporekivasinebana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d18a42d8c---witasaviraxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/pevigajuzeleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/midasokujinireli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe16668da3---jukibobunikawubasigefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69469e11e29cb7dce33f46052bceaf5c/6727352659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t0frn3lkkuare2gg51q6p40o0/teruwupesusofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/27507894282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607113c493ae0---rovudozugaxiburipowoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/komogebawewekatuneva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangbienhaitien.com/uploads/files/vomurizegavatexojezukakop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e7e0a7ddb48f5276ecf19037dc460b8/xisikazodibagatadiluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7f01e129be---divipulesurejenugilobanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ni70gmkq1m6gc6bi9uq1gvft27/14972346081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/27989961618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hubbardfamilycircle.com/clients/62940/File/xixugodexalata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zowikimugifewopedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=activiti+in+actionPDF 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_off00012445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12445 9824 bytes
SHA-256: dc035289691e87de258e2a04a7d6b811add27d29884e65273d8d430aae9bd489
font_01_sfnt_off00013a09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001521b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1521B 17548 bytes
SHA-256: d6857012dbad739e6f99596cf6df03df63993ad9b23803d1a0d16b18fa4cfd15