Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a36b75cb3a38a7c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 01:45:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2d50cc2e241400bb6cfe409dcbf8a4ff SHA-1: 348b43787d9e6b9c1563ab34054e406855e74016 SHA-256: a36b75cb3a38a7c9a3242599fb1edfdc3d13f433d511a99e6c9f6f909537118e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF structure and embedded links indicate an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities or trick users into visiting malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+yard+of+ale
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc774b13b4f---sebaruruzilubizawomemij.pdf
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/17575949753.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd951603a5---fexok.pdf
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/52168670866.pdf
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d65dd2b958fc5414d801260c5ab3067e/wifinekejodutefodatud.pdf
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/nesejij.pdf
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51760845000.pdf
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3962424579afb5e55b0e1ec4714afd7b/75778964518.pdf
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087429508abe---88261825856.pdf
    • http://maisondequartierdespareuses.com/userfiles/file/66570205609.pdf
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b47b8dada---gusapufivezunis.pdf
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78054616834.pdf
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/19459303848.pdf
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b150d680295603402830b09a56cc4b86/lanojotomudum.pdf
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nlg0d5eos4c88shtj7md44ov2/xilugoluxi.pdf
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609571bcb9880---39903964307.pdf
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d291c61e1---mufifavomojivafukofe.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54d773639c7f18414495bb4db57abff5/wuxilixesolafodide.pdf
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/17784933489.pdf
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/25544336250.pdf
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ea7de905b431c3bec019982c050ae4/sijozubedapefoxow.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce6e.bin
c4f070567b16e167911ee39480de15bf59aaa4ddeb769625743a6ba885e32fb0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE6E 16960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000facd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACD 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000112e4.bin
3d39e17f18ae705cf30c31755ae2cc6e45963de10a0bfe44d50a0b53e35e8743
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E4 10068 bytes