Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36ee22c51d569e3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 00:19:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: dc8d8a044d5e60665cec9f648e09666c SHA-1: 4c48c1d9a6e29a1b2b1e1f5003ba02cb474ea5d5 SHA-256: 36ee22c51d569e3b0fb7d2ab76c58ce1036f957ce81f6b1ff7e7ca5952099975
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of 'cmd.com' in the document text suggests an attempt to execute commands, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/75655519744.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/70256402342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/fazawetimubidovudafifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29157475980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huspanda.com/data/ckfinder/files/31653518296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb12b99283627e49245aa556dfd70aa3/98334995250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wisibalegagasosivesoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131400f3bff9---42409521621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903111509425020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/takuwitumekimiwesipafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/fidugutijaviwiwunibara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387b2a108a4---81250474309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/userfiles/file/39100283213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/fodutebutirukeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yp05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/xifobavivuxibabebebakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yyfxsw.com/upload/files/21243464917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1s5vvp7hkn9u68golfnob2u27/72184657838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdcmd.com/data/files/56957383749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlabiura.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60953218559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/29976610620.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/69379504203.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/44221778038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/31193737871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/96982570691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d7abec67615e42a1582bb7a47d058ed/nilemuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippinnudon.com/uploads/files/89812467355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlabiura.kbo.pl/ckIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=wlan+hacker+app+androidPDF 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_off0000d9fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9FA 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 0a82134c16a39466ceb1c2630a3c6ad2848ed078934cbddcd90734a1807984fb
font_01_sfnt_off00010915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10915 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001212c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212C 10428 bytes
SHA-256: e82f03c7ba41f914114e3b0a6abb0d85706a9ccb481918a87728a89b985ab158