Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d36b939d9461c332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:38:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 875bab8573ac8221e082a3e4fb74aae1 SHA-1: 08795c882ba9435527e4266f53909685346b506a SHA-256: d36b939d9461c332c0d58653cb0e77bb2c8c1b858a473f0270ddff73c693a8b8
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 redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16072da575f0c5---nazasez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7a5a4392c5c8546ab3d5f8be8e032a8/13877051571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/tekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb2dd3e2357---wofuxebekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcd138453543de5555b2b1a677722e13/27735003790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/99874103108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23152753956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiytedaibao.com/media/files/15692169535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e18ef7fc24d42e090bcb68bc20d1b6f/41562148561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac255d2840ea672b97b4c588f3073817/97897503212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/gugotutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/725c4cea45e83de76e3498abeb3178bb/30415395558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldstecq.com/userfiles/file/72443572427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc6a6dtf3m7924on11av07k8sm/40799646020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mchs67.com/clients/6/60/601da637195afcc8544498be66ee72b0/File/45137518645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607676a4df538---51491678712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitrangvabaoho.com/Images_upload/files/48747119222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62fb9c25e6---81703875435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prb58kuvpgnbgl8i673bsl8g3e/68094152971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ln80.cn/filespath/files/20210812210209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec41fcefb37---neruvadanojivavixevane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faximafimifuzinezavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44398f090a---71830683182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/2752647483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/rabexevevipevulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=instrumentation+control+engineering+books+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_off0000e57a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57A 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 6ed6838323be78b99d2808fdfa2a58ccc341bccd6161a4635aba219187666a24
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6A 19272 bytes
SHA-256: d15c256556202854892401dac8121bb1990cdecb221134d9d5bdd7db150ae8b8
font_02_sfnt_off000131bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1