Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9636af322bd93f90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:37:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2574710f8b72709ae7701e53217b58da SHA-1: b48d996da877275d3b3fb779dad1e000111b58eb SHA-256: 9636af322bd93f9037ab583759fe2d15768727d1dd07eb3ff72bf94097acfefe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other potentially malicious URLs. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable content, suggesting its primary purpose is to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc137a8544---somukuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/vovojubuxiguwidosedofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094164e4e242---latupomedobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d3a4ed9bc---femujubebumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608873ff9e400---faxosezilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asia-test.informacittadino.net/media/files/89518383692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f62221ff2f---gafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607127f1968b2---82646016980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/14930097928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/bedanoxototiwitolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/bumuvivinokulinemavak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f7e89f360---58243911434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/3174376201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/xufudujinerus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/magenimibitivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ac8f4f507c899fca2ed7716087d5127/vojonepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/47896553528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads//file/66412656614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/jozaxezifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myosiaffiliate.com/199trust/img/file/doxujiwajapuwefoseziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cc20f17ae---64574214515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gefuxavezoterikokomibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53d6c55dd76977294d7f10022ddc9c40/xaduzijaviwemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a6628df59---buwizisopumevedotoseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68b74buje7ak27d26u2mecuu79/11550708140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=bsc+nutrition+and+dietetics+pdfPDF 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_off0000f081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF081 18300 bytes
SHA-256: 7b538ff41eafa6e595568aceb7fff49a0e9a8d28739da54bd8cfbe0a06c8b2a3
font_01_sfnt_off00011f78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001378f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1378F 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 4885102c4447dbcfab0e0905eff0fcb16dfd09ccb3fe2ca06981a6ca00ca4a07