Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36d20b42709371e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:08:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e976923c7dd627ded3a1e5dd7d5a8482 SHA-1: 83d35f10427c3289abfec86d34cc4bd908e0b218 SHA-256: 36d20b42709371e1cf4c759a51532b6e07eda20a557532fa6c055bb8a1aaf10d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation. The PDF structure itself is heavily obfuscated, and the document body is unreadable, indicating a focus on embedding external resources rather than providing user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6da2fb9339b0ed65823751d937396b1b/mapuwajufukuxunuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.com/files/usersfiles/files/nurabati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acquadiqualita.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44658460319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tfi36i173vjkarvnb4i0btqef/vevimodupixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29decba9c62b88b6d537884c82c77ac9/rawofuletevofumipajiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginzaoakland.com/uploads/files/bidasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/54669465812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/detatenodugibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7ecd8eb00c98f378d89f1bba23a7c4c/toditevogudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5734926911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/sekegowefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocvietbungalow.com/upload/files/92593906657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609229eca6296---nuduxofajejitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/zibon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f9c1c96d0d68a1692f2983c9c1e0994/9994654252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/73807952265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40b1960322d17897b2d2590046c33585/bigefigizolorerira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecfecce5bfd83344fdf7fa265fb88ef7/9397200102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f3c1ba0c271ea0edc2763697646ee25/nirazupeselig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mepajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5947522c7---37477622761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.civilhospitalpalampur.in/img/uploads/files/72380092808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=exhaustible+and+inexhaustible+resources+pdfPDF 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_off0000c811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC811 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE028 11044 bytes
SHA-256: a714e8f01442ac9da36977761619cb0766e8cab7f1efb4b781aae869f8227b4d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF989 16444 bytes
SHA-256: a12472e3838027ad180e2a9d0d4c6a82b454b6e924fcd707692f8b4042bcc5b0