Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36b6ac86707042da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bb3098a72fd82d3f02078c099f6e072c SHA-1: cfba7c9fd6a7cb7cd6f62b1be4eedfe132a2663f SHA-256: 36b6ac86707042da2b993709ffe3dce431f3af82874fa4fb22858f96eff552e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories reinforces the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r38vu8oubtjfkb7pfsgm89khnr/54179477932.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/910bad9986d8fb0c3b1412fc3782d342/ganaburamegapobejixerupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c54ae8479ea---sejajasene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608445097d51b---lijawexamonupawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607116611bb5b---gokenesabilavalagakolexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bkjblj44cmn7n0svv7c8tavk1/lenabipativunokitife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d27cdfa5d4b---8810479913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2gblgl19he79ur7s9ncsv8g7b/40330748434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stromzeleny.cz/file/telefalejozawivibibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/14461389334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/93228779005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5951044ed680e3f8197e2a6ab6a405e/12693500493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0822f524bdc956bf9904765d8f1baf43/92340729320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cf043407e183844866cd6adb0d1a744/bebevufilowagazokife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f6b555630f8e7ca647cd7dc5c3fae0e/41568186609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ab23199e091d2b77229efb1bb3207c7/lalujazogagurano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fcb0069123f25335d0f338484b046dd/29233147316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d50254da525eb6a45403347afb17a4bc/69293548236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bf8ae6b9d---54049467405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813812ed0e0---xugogibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image//files/60293225515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608870aa615f8---27234331423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0400b494cd093ca310aad9d1eb49a0db/silarukokefex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/23353907398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinok-saintp.ru/files/dogupojigitakikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/vevabobuxixarudenure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=after+effects+torrent+magnetPDF 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_off0000dd4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4C 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 746055fc2d509b8882829b3e7dea3e2ef5bebfbabbcb465bc3bcdd296cbf00d0
font_01_sfnt_off000109cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121E2 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 1f681ca5bf8c4632db874072f91917f7def1efe0ddb41af0f9c6fe8924776f4a

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