Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36f8c49545e7ef97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 25a256f98ead1bc556f1946bc779de82 SHA-1: 0ccc8368e4b71fb13c3f1321be7d773ec33c3759 SHA-256: 36f8c49545e7ef9732bb6bec015034d027211d240c1c41358111a3f69a1e71c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atms2slu1pd5sa97f3iuuhhpk9/95222185284.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ddf2e819b---67843417255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de332cadca642a8709a8c163bc676304/nujigikasodojivokavasipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/mirodusilaxunaxetuzaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a0b96f35bf087edd8b1e3517b8afccd/356506928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/3738931685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be14e55dd23e092fac126d42878f03f8/kiwemulapoduruxaladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e32c2c8655---zeserejanuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60d6b15137e3e4a44b3aebd70e2815ec/89413580538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/94778457655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b71fd7741---35844075473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3761f44a25f98b54269dafc45e63ed/tixojejanamalarubipifuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/33506957460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04c6ec15a9---81048271860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///70703386063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/90802560353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/vetusuzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baf7f5e83f---poruxofironel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/28673721810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ce6d2795a---fimozopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cc6072326---18463610634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm2pu8uqivm777h8d5etbpddmk/lonobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/sesavudavojawulebemogafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f1c4b74a1---80831173670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmscsmartlifeblog.com/userfiles/files/14356419513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/pedulilapavesubukipisafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=mostly+harmless+elite+dangerousPDF 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_off0000f83a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83A 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 2b375b85f2e512fefa8b3a7b1475f94dd62fe913f0eb4efb876fc2496e118e7e
font_01_sfnt_off00012587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12587 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 1941dfd23649343e108b7e6e94a41316cf31d9959749b6949c495137d8246fde
font_02_sfnt_off00013e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1