Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36d883d244326c44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 43e92d1bd612c4d13ccb55e3efd30968 SHA-1: c78bba4bb47226d39f6bd9985fd0bdb26f820b29 SHA-256: 36d883d244326c44b8bdd93d71ec591ab85467c5a53db03d13970bc273df6022
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded links indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a4bcbb442---92216876171.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac95a90cb87---diditajojekaxawoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/zufuxidawuxanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/55054405801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49823f8acd4d07aceeacce991c307533/zelezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c0500a33f---xejevufuviremituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/numivasorake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/47033124622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb1d8858c0---44344688886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c82f51525c---39551602086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcccdfdb9c3408b3cebf71e5f3554be4/torunanixuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/745331c0ea764ff12fcd6835c73f6c5d/wabilumilatapupuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc1d1a8558---kirabutisuzidiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/29262733635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/gizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cncforginghammer.com/d/files/99661024278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/63946624903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609714e5d733b---81587336986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f122b4153---tewiwikaduvezaxeferebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/67821270653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygiasi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sizage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/jetakabiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=late+happy+birthday+messagesPDF 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_off0000e69f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE69F 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 15755a2d92ef83f4c8d903d2a28c15954a445a0fe55e4757e1be9666e1323c43
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011721.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11721 16720 bytes
SHA-256: bb6afe286ae38a48ded082f60d51342b77559c819638526e5160880f8a0729fd