Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f36f4ba7c0fdc38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:47:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ad18ed4608468359d012053695513ec3 SHA-1: bb0103c19179e2ffc0fea88a5827f97ae7b3bbcf SHA-256: 9f36f4ba7c0fdc389085d7389032a353df1920edf5ff37569c5bb0981eef0039
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV confirming it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially compromised URLs, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=boss+gt+10b+manual+espa%C3%B1ol PDF link annotation
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/wiluxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4d14cb07a---42929627663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f163d526f541f5466bf682651c8fb6f8/gudazisitorafidakaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2ffc2a5c9---29631285733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7276cb22f523c492cf865e91eac33b5/zafoxovununowumenogakupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/20398624405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dringraldi.com/clients/7/73/73ccc230e5ee2b020474e4a43bcd07af/File/80503774455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb94eaa3cf---89738702495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rcr208l6ij6mm2hib27tuctkk/59270186348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkmdc.com/aversystem.com/userfiles/file/keketikipudiropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faisaltowel.com/survey/userfiles/files/dutikapojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079555d9f525---30571714044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecowaytechnologies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10309397286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danfilenemd.com/clients/67744/File/48133760155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/rugefezomosunoxijili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/30126187409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7c09a4941---tusarokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a414fd513c---28549293084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36fcf56eae7a51c335365d97761128dd/jabokoligokedabewabekev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79662e7680159bf8f10c1ea2348c8a11/74654872922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danangsculpture.com/uploads/image/files/pefufobafudevuvexorinogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/78384184078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738c0270b84---32231110073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zold-kommando.hu/files/8817752997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/90963477402.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_off000149e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149E1 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 5498ef0d03927d721b8baac611f8ac351a34ba65577c28b156b2c75c58388980
font_01_sfnt_off00016361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16361 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017b73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B73 21940 bytes
SHA-256: eb861965c8c9491669f3a15833c6e124824dbb0657ccb2026878dab97fc3b677