Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36f91fdacb517a85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:35:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: dfcf427e41332097a70a4c6a65179f6b SHA-1: 2372126711bc4fae86eac2efbc59765fde05ba94 SHA-256: 36f91fdacb517a85567d0fe38dd2fd41115b784bb56b93026b09cbcd93cafcf1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The file's purpose appears to be to lure users to malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff4c0edd5b---42631074893.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b23370ee41ff9ec43f8b9d14ab171a/55139415479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/92805996609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekopaczka.pl/imgbrama/files/xatumivifulopalexazurudib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/38172215946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3a4a41cefbd98358fca02e649e2fde6/31305702595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/rukutifefuzetubafanirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0acc3e7c89e14e3fe145ca197e79e490/57102618667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbpfbg0gsr5vl0r08ktm3icuv5/97443065923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/juzisebuwugaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/202166232709223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lesezositotisejeteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.com/scauserfiles/files/sotaluded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/72903560316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c3a84bf58---56177366974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/potiroxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lihfl3f4upnlota3396si0ih1/59765620528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2deb53c8a560cb0ab5134e577d3a0f/67857418738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/310454884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f166280ae---xodomisoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/38393444766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce265f821cefb34d6a27125adcc3ccd3/jadoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/25933087470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettarecasa.com/userfiles/files/87105942693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ford+escape+2017+manual+transmissionPDF 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_off0000e5a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A9 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 764b2319d595678561fc88a54d1bfc41e4782613e8d64ec28db4b2582e770b9c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B0 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 2c12d1049df0faf4275241856de4abd1e07a110e43aa3af3465baf8f24460721