Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 536c9a824a00ef6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:47:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5dd940e04dd9b6719d5a5a9256829ed9 SHA-1: 487a8c32cbc273ddb61d75a0bfc09e2c303ad45a SHA-256: 536c9a824a00ef6f07c04cedbacb0d011c2d429bb767f8d159847d500039981e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external links and the overall structure point towards a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=occupational+stress+theories+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc8ebdcfda---nafavosidobefumetafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ec7d05c2e1df5e5aad05acdd58e933/38593053006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/8791625224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/silozidepuxakimamodozesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdc7b6bc97---rulazuwowarakijilawixitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87959116624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105261022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe0gkq16u6tmrg4vhn1cplsbj0/75579940669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensi-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/91086556657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nuxoditanakowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campfun.myhost888.com/upload/ckeditor/files/36406746448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5282b1d0d914d2ea520ff3c8cdfe8e4b/95759469559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a537782f836---63915349081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/380bd78b9a8e2d94c4c4b61dfa554b70/72070984927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a216c83c63e---96450969331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/90054169487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/37046626735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kixemewumukiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abd6de00e7---53040935932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s84btf95tkopotpjnoddrmjod1/fovefovodixoxikadivuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a510a93bfc8---fiwulamexofuzasokijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/544ebe4ecf9bd2bd61ac52b09a1fc332/20794130860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b21221c6bcf2aa0fffe4661fe61b68f3/resaripevetawubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1a16bb814---merowavodolidivesibiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a65e9f92c4c860deca1d4ae438b8acc7/82088742715.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_off0000e679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE679 17280 bytes
SHA-256: beed3d1f1f3c919b7b90e79e352d40ddbf81d6667481c4dcc405e61b2f859963
font_01_sfnt_off0001132c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1132C 10844 bytes
SHA-256: f852452cadf8535098b0c5fdb715143238c8daef9cc3723a6816db83544120cd
font_02_sfnt_off00012c2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1