Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36dcf41e5e7a60c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:53:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: bfbb4ba525eab9643a5673a54303261c SHA-1: f8fb687ad2e737cbd5307a63c4a3ebfc9290af63 SHA-256: 36dcf41e5e7a60c22b4576b1a823ab021530ce220282a74b437c08eff61b50a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafubudabasoveb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105f02edfc73---28300452381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/munimekalonozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/58341434896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmv66hmrq9hii962k819qclbhp/25115689500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607731ea313ae---norutufukoradinuvupores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/taxupekuxijowakonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c74a1ea303---28057096518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/85552704272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127d7f8b8ae3---17143409420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6ad7b3e21---36773316741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9262895.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33758141462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/sapofekowojixabitarabari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/18066027615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/pifovoxowerovexubazokomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bd988eb12---tuwelora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/7322627909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicamarsala.it/userfiles/files/sarubumapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb5d533e06f5b8b646622ff266cbec4/49118678957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120232e4e443---3474113216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70765669660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/796426ccde8d49259726bbed468213d1/81806731210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/vesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ghdq2ad8pqfq411q6aub4h742/mefenuwasediveduxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/zupajifajizowodowavedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/nabowevenafekanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba4f8e93301---42593316225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=electron+transport+system+is+located+in+mitochondrialPDF 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_off0000cb18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e32a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE32A 17476 bytes
SHA-256: 110b94725e3b287723ba9bdac8904e08bd5a0c29f809768db63c7b75203e98f6
font_02_sfnt_off00010f80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F80 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 9cf37412b718b5fad230c3f97f1a5784766c0f9100d880d44d85e879111ebba5