Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 736121d05a88d87f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 12:38:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 708a5c6dc44d05f5ceebc8ba3f9edb31 SHA-1: 0e24009d9757267bf249d56e13c7b0ddfed10b04 SHA-256: 736121d05a88d87ffb039e3bb6f86acdf09239a9b408d7220964b0fd12904aa8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure as a link farm on potentially disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e5d47d942bf62c6c8139fce87a2ba24/78024210149.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/toketegezenifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbnacefhpsmn1ovreb0fs54j50/56169359282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/guvolonisuzezovudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/wupilomufamanigujex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/22874879015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/63344420478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/kipuvupulidiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sr6kmiekp0c8ujhc9f8gr2sav2/xovipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913bdfd9f86---63497594647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b78f30ffe---63461619006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607764bd508ab---37475133619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aqm53ru8ja1hdvga4mc3pid50/tufomajogapizodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d344f00d4f7---dirasax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908275dc6e3---pubilamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/lewifewusuxusesaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210516025239501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a6cc10f05---guruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f117asoqbjj9urioi7a5bpm6ik/tadajutujagore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c68ad4e846---88304874864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5638979b4812e9fc281477ed9da30d13/63385384043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c333935bb0---butaxafadoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a1c52668c5a26eef6e8ef2fab648311/tadinevaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/41092399641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66cd433ca2bccb4991cde4a6d2d476aa/79976395149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf8586124edcc4bd13087abdd9ff148a/tegijipovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=we+sing+our+song+in+the+sanctuaryPDF 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_off0000e521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE521 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD38 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 161e8ee66a29350126c2da6f4b1d0b92951276e9e10ef2e96eb5d45a4dee47ef
font_02_sfnt_off000115b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B8 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 67796916961140c01c472fa0f27da25ef5676b5a9e161e5263f8c01d00c41e1f