Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36d5ba43314ad915…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 23:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: aec601832cb1f21effb3c130ec987e38 SHA-1: fa49f1bb170d727b6d4ac783b6f174aeadec0958 SHA-256: 36d5ba43314ad915a71c053b86cc273ad5fe2bf770ad790307f3cfaa9b61ed09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://chp-travel.ir/data/file/88306081898.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61b4cdc0c600fec3cda4d01358a60f5/bawatonekewixisokerizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyela.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/bosexetosunibekujowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab592b3417f---796236468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760dd988131---35137683589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/lelurupifuvefabufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jql4qdv6n4ajdgpif2h8gobr0r/4224924675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcea6d9b043c74da8f4c40de813bd7b4/79867366974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/51228447135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f439b8c49---83013842135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesmclassof68cheyennewy.com/clients/82478/File/xewabixagerutugadotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/momivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/fifuzafiwexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096064f64880---tedewabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/raziwalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/rizidagopawawudoxuliwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/kugugakunite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1a0f954cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arab-hams.com/Ups/files/89881458209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c32cc6211eee3900147c54b82f96c10e/sefujarefigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/jubumamasino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/19487665775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqged9v2hn4ci3g52vhaddjlmg/84557616050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06ss78uu549iudqm6uqlkaa5f4/fiwisuvekete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pllo8ng54rq48nj4e4vudva2o3/fenuwajuzibovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=download+film+bulan+terbelah+di+langit+amerika+2+lk21PDF 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_off0000de2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE2C 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 50f0e705ea8ab6325243e6879953160f3d34f99d49190ec3f5ebb222523fcf90
font_01_sfnt_off0000f830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF830 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11042 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 95b1f7ab6768d62dcaddd36a9d08c79601adf0bc1a7cd303cab0a85c550721db