Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36dfa02203167d50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:30:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 88f2bd9aedd4303383cf8e97b7b09288 SHA-1: e81da4af11a36f4a8834fdf05ab38d4edfb40592 SHA-256: 36dfa02203167d50f4dd285d78167bc4533ec268f247977f06432ddc84d51d53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf, rather than user-facing text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c7386806e---sarigutujesova.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ammk.sk/userfiles/file/jukufikomirupivaxetamabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/823702250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/nuvavotonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/solovozitijupobabexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a3fdc48dd6d4613e5b40d79ddd6e8d/nozovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///43255778406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/neverijofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11700034157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/4695500682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad71afadbe6---povod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrarental.org/upload/file/woseluzixulopagozevojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/78124147168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/mepegevegoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c82c47ecc7---weduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/63457426649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittzumstegfamilyreunion.com/clients/e/e5/e56c03c63d8c9260b12fda9e5e6a3df6/File/38053337070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtandgulet.com/userfiles/file/98669381953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24c05k1e7mddkleiclclqhfm69/55453830869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klassn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64302960185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4ab2784d1---mapemewokozutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/gufelubemofafuvodunodiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superchills.com/userfiles/file/gojugetujidubunufexutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/178794ba4fb6a30e438ac8991b58d9d5/xumubux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=customer+relationship+management+a+database+approach+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d22d782599c561797ee67eabf2e9ccab/32924262439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000155de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155DE 11336 bytes
SHA-256: 55fa1237a6553277add63537977203f94a7fcb147b9c39c75ea0063fee118fdb
font_01_sfnt_off00016fe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000187fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187FB 19616 bytes
SHA-256: 460c2e6ab7dd920b1ecdd459986e28c5ab878657a548a799c276d9c38ce7055f

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