Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a36c08f0f5d340b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:15:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: aac0da1a71e9bc7a9297d2a130dd2add SHA-1: 31aedaa65430570e6d2f83ee53f709097ab1c52f SHA-256: 9a36c08f0f5d340b3943390eaf5c5dc0ae61dff762816540e4cb3260316b7685
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, and critically, it explicitly requests recovery secrets or private keys. While no scripts were extracted, the document's structure and the nature of the requested information strongly suggest a phishing attempt aimed at stealing cryptocurrency or other sensitive account credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/9584887338.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/lavafudilutaravosizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c31cd63082---42870468244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asoi1cbu9380ibll42tmnf644b/jemavaradopovoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edbee535366---36840299239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d0862ccedb---wewupukububujufupakode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d755dfccec3d569e0f1d4fd0169f197/lidojeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intimatehotelpattaya.com/image/upload/File/71836638318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/bekubopegazefosizizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38sai8r9gvhjraho3dcmkrihn5/95614999141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609290260db57---vedakuzabobovibusume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17ff4f7fa7c73a67cc021d2bb93f8da6/70217986373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sport-way.ru/img/file/putaperadozawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/26976105445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76f243029721d15553cb66dc63b1ce02/renefixademesukenerokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superazs.ru/images/news/file/pogevajaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae37585def---99646719780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c98c7b46db---7011036665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalaircrafttech.com/ckupload/files/nunaruzelekurawemewawitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/84517825897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/873e748d423cb967fbad8eec624eae11/1556361085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ggkgmfebqnp1im48glol3t76k/69236132200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/52479652503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=crypto+in+node+jsPDF 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_off0000fb23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB23 18128 bytes
SHA-256: ef15b8b534f0cce84041e573901d2fd50bba625d0a76398330b161d659b4b3e7
font_01_sfnt_off00012a1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14236 10452 bytes
SHA-256: e0671b501e80a80f8893bec540419559e699fe631e9616ed3cfd048807798c3f