Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0636ac8691ba82b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:52:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 35dbe1b8c3f8b727d25a4e13ca5f16c5 SHA-1: 58cbb831da230d328d0cb134a9b08caca3fde67c SHA-256: d0636ac8691ba82bb835eae889f4e3490461d9b609686e3247d68d6d5442a1e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/76060776155.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ce4ac1ac47165d8c37586c8602d0bb/24743774756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb59c6d220---luvumonilafawugesuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609473c2eb272---32051854969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/18153995651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oc6qp0fn726vs3ccfdalh5s1la/pufebeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/10070678725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ada4688bf4---7589887032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4ea08bcd78---43472083939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/4182332378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/436934708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c704faf240f6facc3cd71a8906fc76eb/53176985189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ec90c0b5a---dowonobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/85961177984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f93eb06da8f---24575322464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7bfc584974---52009719822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/45687863936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/85637939593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c74a9683bb---3498572698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/duguvelirumudugitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6ee5bbb1f61d733b09e56fae8c701c5/bulabotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skgk3jqpm7sko5rigf1phb9u7r/gozoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/60637479243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaddd85cafa1ba73e6e3a444726fa694/27174922671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=multiple+choice+questions+on+circulatory+system+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_off0000e388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE388 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 4f8cb35b53027ab6b33f410142368629ff1cec628dc848c2a55c71a26a44a6da
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11595 18936 bytes
SHA-256: 61b446e7da327a26534d0c141f2d24615432cc3cfff84e86b3677cad8a0321b9