Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36b2320e7a078804…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:56:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 72db6f6432f675b66c95c8812ef68be2 SHA-1: 671055664479722eeb4eec5ccacc03d31995dae2 SHA-256: 36b2320e7a078804295e3e02a8975995d90d038bcfc9b41e41dd65dcb3161224
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, hosting numerous PDFs on compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l92l1qmuf7q85md6ig90qcna73/91673304148.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5060bbf70---fowasigogukulizakiwekizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ce020164a8be5f71618766e6f060895/47428303954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odg5ep0l29hhif0ta6dnjo3cd7/lufirikapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb902cc116---nulijenamogodewubugajuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhkfg428iufggdul6i1jmnj61k/resigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c7c57c697---valunuzowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/um5l8ku3tj6omqhs28qtsl68qm/26040015984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/76411225987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1df46e8d400e3ab92051e4eaf5f2ef7/zufipikazudeselarunosewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cc1fa6763---71868179961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cba1e14fb---lewetogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/968d7c556a2667ef90d0c868c80132b7/9572607349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750c0b7b1c5---zuzitaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a247593a2c6---59579361984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/45365972822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160970c274308a---57185730579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a60e7bc78---sojikefabojuwibevijetum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb00bc1291---58840735703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8624958f0b991f613b6970147734ec02/novezunodopediloga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/tumapilefagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gutrintbjjnor7avi03js3tmh5/66089692620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/92573655337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+age+of+resistancePDF 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_off0000f787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF787 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 461190269c11d73319e8b85c83fe6e76d677396bff8af2f274bc37b49485eb15
font_01_sfnt_off00010f85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12797 17404 bytes
SHA-256: ac5a9a7b1a89b3853704dde3198b4e66ee3b26d0ef8943e953f07f1e7d6b2ad9