Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c136db2dbae1bdf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-09 16:54:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 43137890de9d4428e01fb36595174323 SHA-1: d4a8778803b0fbf96e4434a03092ba40b23214d7 SHA-256: c136db2dbae1bdf243de134247efa70834be29a70b747ecfa3c20e9ef724b76a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aef723a70e408efe3d5497d0ab302c70/laziri.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alhs1973.com/clients/64426/File/56858868514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrorevisionimonregalese.it/file/35722291301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff056e8a240e5771cdbc68168472e8fd/13321518759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c43f351dd6e1ee06b0cc2f815a13711/59744064407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/52413636729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59248ec1ac---tutezoxesekadifupaziramin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3504b060034751829358b55b435940f1/40309960119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/dakas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ojm3a1rii1rq72pb2f4eei6pk/viwotugetudukixokawowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/diwerezalubujavinumasodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7c26c7883a---69469611318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_7B995D82394D721D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb6b54d395257595423fe1eb02bb3c50/32888075028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k4gqkh0eehs8deetp08rfd16q/13220274494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/kusowutixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53f97c52c5---17775158007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f20e0ec6840---sipegijoluxuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.com/_data/images/file/fijukewunopawepezesegep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/turikoduji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/lusojigesesevafawugite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufobunimibago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962e44c5a30---24141797843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiemdinhcan.com/Images_upload/files/97844365073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dream-mebel.com/pic/file/xumufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tekken+6+file+size+pcPDF 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_off0000f604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF604 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 82ab8cece93f78a786d4bfc640767eeeb4e5c4265745488b0e2d60f64df9c7fb
font_01_sfnt_off00012420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12420 10276 bytes
SHA-256: e53b83508761c6597ccb9da9b2a182374da63ed4135b5c0bc5946ae4810c1848
font_02_sfnt_off00013b6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1