Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c36665736ee5a04c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-06-01 09:52:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 2fe1dd1525b9b5f7ff6846e3897c44e1 SHA-1: db436a2ebc1037cb2318d67b37a764c396716805 SHA-256: c36665736ee5a04c9b111cfe4095f5fbdf8663920a17ca887f13fba84d217431
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tom+and+jerry+movie+2021+trailer PDF link annotation
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c03a44c4a3---wonodibebajipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c01c7c6b8e42891d47eb8e2de1db7d8a/50117180408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f9f2b8545308d7cf707393e5d5e191e/tirorafiwapobejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewemilagepenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81d2defd69e78253d341d6e2b2e8cb68/pifojozivogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d55e12eca6---19980538215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/taromefelibunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/800547d55accc89e6e147a546017dfc1/74589475787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52952d3e4e930436cea3bb2317389ad5/megumanetaxetadopofuwibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/27850400336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f3nshm6q9e7hh1kfe2jmvg893/17086426733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tomni4qp99nkt529km85626dfd/zepagodopofinaruga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/32736768043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75cab5820d005a4831d1758739c7dfc9/notevapexudefawibubaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD49 5304 bytes
SHA-256: e9679ace21f82bee219212dde44b5feac1707d97e7e99a7e272d37aea564ad88
font_01_sfnt_off0000df4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF4F 10492 bytes
SHA-256: f68937eacf3c18fd7857bf669d1284d868eb7852280d506f03b2d9dbbcf38e52