Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d36cadc989f23752…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-08-16 06:30:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 19e00806ac0e310823a45490af6f40e3 SHA-1: d806039fb63f064bcc4ec9244237a86a86ce8958 SHA-256: d36cadc989f237525e946034721d0fa39d963a3d135d116971c5b2d37e9e4704
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing or a trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points to a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e825d299be6eeea920e28d99d9fae70b/55863682311.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/fatabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/sosijosiwavoxoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://washchienluoc.com/upload/file/66306509909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medianet2000.net/amm_prod/image_news_popup/file/92815268554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4cdc950dc7e5c42074d5d176cad9c74/vutameze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/xopupomuromogedepudujam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/56709884366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2c8e702a62---41587211447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/sakerume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607586960cb8c---89880045801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l14m073bsf6dfpelpmogcbdl78/8730332010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/61265744194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/42024007337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nm-union.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36597168398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbtsap.com/Upfiles/news/file///totojefemawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/22715729922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.db-ynox.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27694316039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb367d619d---31976916749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/basapegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8e9179e59---58117506143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolution-dev.com/file_media/file_image/file/zotozisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s94b6mt0v142pas65dr482mkr/melutujebopuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f36be0845---79458701231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+5+examples+of+hyperbolePDF 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_off0000da99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AB 19472 bytes
SHA-256: 0a986e182c05566ca37c3f1641c687c6be8fe009aa925df351e8ac6685bc7dff
font_02_sfnt_off00012557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12557 10912 bytes
SHA-256: dd1f1cbe45b824456740e0a27869d2869d9e8b23b924e26673a982972161f27d