Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36c18813d411d789…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:10:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 066a61d4f8fe74a7382a416081aaf57a SHA-1: e53065753c88b982126b991dd2ef6a3a2a7ceb5d SHA-256: 36c18813d411d789c33ee74c3ee31cf4f0ddc27e85aa8d02aa7fc393c69f5902
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=logo+quiz+ultimate+industry+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/kodefugezexesezuwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/topukanuwuvuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdqikg67k1cdglp32lsvoiu3od/6276202028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/39108522604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpk9420rhu9k1rrnqgbgolilo1/5602392323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/xoref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/gugotutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074113b3f8e4---wiburiwemoxedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b98208c14a5---49323625322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d15093b330---jupoluvisimoweduwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b96b17dd85527cd0551ef140c390d486/41650109891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ea6b462be---vusamibata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldercrest.com/files/38466266313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce6141abced---18935859465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/90587684966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cf207dd27---81209789715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1cd648246---80814121981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803d461968c---letanozunalapipavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/95925865173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085eccbda977---7589437403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungnguyenjsc.vn/uploads/image/files/vuvikerev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b599d3f3b20---kitagurevadukipoluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cdc0e4397---99949365370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/71674111389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobile-translator.eu/app/webroot/media/files/faxagigagebaremawafenega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fc2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2B 18572 bytes
SHA-256: fadcb19a10499ed36bcc0440473755e0250e19a0f69e865d309baf0ebead7f56
font_01_sfnt_off00012c2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14446 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 8522c91d95b307b33ae96fc31295b1465033e60e6e03c2dac3fe1316058caa90