Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8036868214662a76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:53:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b46d7310ae9088be8cde4d7eec76b27a SHA-1: 1fcd9807364e2abec49227d49cb4696bf33d088b SHA-256: 8036868214662a76b9e81f3ef6ac75d098de028101025a32f591f56e823780b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or to spread malicious content across multiple 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://grimastone.ru/files/mugiwaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b68517eaa---91906200100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/306a30bc8cb3b93a06dc1e2863365ffb/benakedogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0223530d950b9c93e1c9de657143374/bagawezavurovimilasevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6758d958da---rirukib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/46367991934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/daferemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793282cdbdb---63563825210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/798064030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb1c9a8e67ee3aa03b22a6df70f68c74/vetujowugepuvisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4011sr1cpthdv2qts9r50ts9d3/kaxajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40624057bfeb51a6f94a648d7a067b9a/gefosotelodekeniwejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/rosifaxogejite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bff7badc7---96973149517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/39327990325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da5c20fd05---74161886779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c701708f8d8---23737469207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722bff2b81c---puwenagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c86c667a0c---tudusamukurisitegotibegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608402d6e03da---74467345163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b3e4ae2ae---xefikixima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/30927990521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/dudewilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c9a25212a46be8e2eecd513cf7b38e/simapirixizujexoneni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=jaw+keeps+cracking+and+poppingPDF 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_off0000e9e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E5 16060 bytes
SHA-256: c3eb5c20b46f64918432c299d1e4971c135ef9563f65308bc62cd7727b559e23
font_01_sfnt_off00011342.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11342 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 995109ea28074ebe6709a3104ef66fd75fce8ff1c013fbea03e319e35c677a6b
font_02_sfnt_off00012bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1