Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36e5e5e4efea4f15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cd2a700c810a14e36d77cf1897c73f5d SHA-1: 774a6e499d83a4e9a56240bd8ab216f056e16b62 SHA-256: 36e5e5e4efea4f15b376c0a21ff64fb59d7c0530dabe52dc26bb16959e36e786
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall detection score strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=does+getting+a+dog+spayed+help+with+aggression PDF link annotation
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2074419b1ce5f49d2a56c602b99599fa/78578853607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b11dc9a8cba00267b4db3cbedccc0ee0/82052450604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/843972e3b9e101b522790b52cdc305b7/18014187125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210606090753131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayernglobal.de/userVZ//file/76839198482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestizhstroycompany.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/26551664428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23d846afc6d26d053679378376712eb1/tedelufida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--m1age8bh.xn--p1ai/files/file/jedukonitubisepipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/bukamugisofigarunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a34f03c20---46920665525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/ridos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c975edd506---6782625520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d807b41c1ac---32068212183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/difiruwowumirezifeworu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/4845782786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/redimomogegofubudijotedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca2d87b203441ca8edfc63cf54b210d4/41300639439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc3mlc5ij93a1opb290eiqotl6/98356086589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoetryworld.com/clients/53741/File/xilekowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78j1nivo8lm9hnfccqbmi5je0e/18174886253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87f454238d---ridulililorot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d96b2a5398---sidujifod.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_off0000eee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F4 16768 bytes
SHA-256: d666a4e8878238979b98e8914b0266945ae9412e4d14292a7a6d78953a30a87d
font_02_sfnt_off0001329b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1329B 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 4cb3b51a213786b846b22d10983bdb123e197ac34a76b05be9357409ad006841