Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c936e2581c540754…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:36:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5b846923159b78c8b467c6e7d813f4e6 SHA-1: 2ac75034373db3bf8617cec40bba6fd92d485585 SHA-256: c936e2581c5407547b5ca5ecf56fb8c77057fe796e893dd8a3da4986356c92ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://zkpower.net/upload/files/72601137040.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/66404554257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/91793344210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.casasemio.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39689007400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfa3a66ef2---lopetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a0b3ab77c---68507818252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/82507422734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607987f85f2f5---49544531510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/jojuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/92355894477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab945b8444---19434932863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49696986018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/xixeropexafulimenenubumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajansnigde.com/resimler/files/35724182875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/15623575074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aba9e1d3ec---94583752662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bgmediation-flm.com/userfiles/file/tubavisoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents//files/86666189825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/kejilawadulanonalexoman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ridlekahc0i6q24i3pij6pq62/70553945415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3d9cb10e9---pijowogogetutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/zutibilovoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609779fed048b---69977630878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vickerycarpet.com/uploads/images//files/pavipazibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=upaya+hukum+dalam+peradilan+agama+pdfPDF 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_off0000d6c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE0 10872 bytes
SHA-256: e0c6602c1b8ea1ac76fb6c7cca163f9b465804848343d02d490b9c2052a07cc2
font_02_sfnt_off0001077c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077C 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 67b726bca34d57ef133ddbcd871dcf5e76a5ee389d19dc624e59267d994e20e2