Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 936835feb09cff8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 05:45:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: e0fc056a8f07163f7448a2ba226c27f4 SHA-1: ba5428e1572753f4d8680c2477cc542790ea0677 SHA-256: 936835feb09cff8ec5d92e4badf8ee15a11248ff99573676cd3ecd044c0910db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent.

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shader+minecraft+android PDF link annotation
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/ruferagumigobakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enilubricant.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/46460592729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/peebfn881mffjo2k907sirumbd/91751366612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bongkartuantakur.com/contents/files/27895623446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josepholszowka.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xojewuxoxurivinonegogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147ba7720627---kulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f8fed5199a---35117455869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411288c4af9---1536594518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411828b07f3---16322684556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m63jdqbrl5kt326ov59sqihmj4/63312548762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygrind.ie/userfiles/file/15503747549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centonze-vini.com/userfiles/files/zukenimabuvemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c581606474---gulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debten.net/UserFiles/File/relukevimirigazalafivex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1b22e61fd---dakegipiraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210926_055005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/userfiles/file/62554293172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclub.org/projects/achievemore/admin/upload/fckImages/file/retavejuzamozemulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/69197303624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613744d0b90ea---8247187071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coachhouse.info/assets/file/53665539811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/botovumemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/81081768788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sonafuwisopudewenuf.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_off0000b2d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2D1 10600 bytes
SHA-256: be061ad6c419c943867c2ad1e13e1f035af234d9099a780765c75e9d00fc0d6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000cad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2EA 17048 bytes
SHA-256: a0315c5caa409eb2c3caf95f8c2fae7d5e091ace4c366ba24cb66770fa7ae6bf