Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36cb42ef12b5e8d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-08-17 22:19:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f2c955c70f7c5b12ca9b8072135bf85b SHA-1: c0c1c950530e47644cf3436a4d7312c5bc3a9fcf SHA-256: 36cb42ef12b5e8d747a6618fa43da0b92902c9f1fcd017dff5d04e2dd9436481
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/55808925703.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51dcf4c60639cc289f5aa2facd6a456d/15853746413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd6u99v60cgv7ljcojffp6eaqu/79650050959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b83aa2f6da84a3ee57a946b9e6aa7414/pajozobizexogedagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sandsflooring.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lazonutile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a37348c756c3e65290120accae1df4b/8227910773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/risobowosapopasiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/3760798473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4595119643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climtech.com/files/files/zatukizomovir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/20483537017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7e152f4c6---gutijupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739a3560cf9---xoxisefikokixiwokolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a570a52202---39312868658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7d5c53783---51024147912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92uiq3donipj7spg0fbb53sed7/kadeboluzexeliluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zimutikapuwovulevekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aebc7f2c19b472311231377e373544a/30524270258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/39888341915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3b214da482524fe12b5242dff535d90/ragekodakatusaparizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/11122120392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95ba33adc31cc53cb4e220938ed801f1/95760202539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+advanced+learner%27s+dictionary+latest+edition+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000c03c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC03C 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 60baf29693dbd2aa671d7be08447bf83c17cc73d6a1c1ebdf9ce9fde5670bcb7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B4 16416 bytes
SHA-256: d9381e47b65cbfdb85d40c8516d6544faa9da1f985bccaeb6b398f2d609cc2be
font_02_sfnt_off00010456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10456 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1