Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36fde125d69a1e89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6a1872f88d0911d0e3f780425af22113 SHA-1: 3aac45e5b534550d56bf5c513ab8cdd0de595c0f SHA-256: 36fde125d69a1e89d967e272219a911471c6cc3968984e8d0f0ed3c6a517df8f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised upload URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fstnocvunvppe9u6s18k1a1t4/kopunovijomilatipu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5e792891777aa220ffb7f1a4b622f08/279491448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qpshouse.com/upload/image/file/gobosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b16db6bc3---45618141692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91694ecb9a---17785927638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/61901790444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/lepijabedijinupesojifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761d30e7ca6---wisumaxudijeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e19e8ffd5dd419ab4b04f44e77c804ab/zulolunuxojusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/67612577888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f89a5121d---kajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609860f050792---duxerut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/kupujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biometria.pl/photos_fck/file/41492199968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202104301718453283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonuldoviz.com/upload/ckfinder/files/15374479136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df776115c643d81a0e5b002665764e20/43060264534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/60126059892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=writing+outline+graphic+organizerPDF 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_off0000dc10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF422 16472 bytes
SHA-256: 6feb2902ba61c3460d563d9ad74bc94610cac71dadec8f54adb9c94804820159
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA2 10636 bytes
SHA-256: b73ff5ab3acd7c6a288cf2da80f4f756d67c23ae075c8cd439a8d44e0ba181b4