Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9c36bf0ba32a6a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 15:00:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d199a3b3eef5763629961304749a0f6d SHA-1: 9e3eff3f88f9cca32bba624f00aa709d1ea1a2c3 SHA-256: d9c36bf0ba32a6a291d145b24b08a3efbee5ba1071c5772fbb6eea600b050645
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious PDF activity.

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=phenotypic+switching+in+candida+albicans PDF link annotation
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ug6nl7ctm3h5pqajqiherdbvja/58123774452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/bujudomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ad08a6d06bc1e31dc7e1437c9f7b85/rubukemiganimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a699c36e14b---65639997242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexedanang247.com/uploads/image/files/37368614245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/voputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/89308262218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2624db4e6c---palimuboxopufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://come2menorca.com/images/file/36361706767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/vadogumepopijozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coopmong.com/ckupload/files/lejakukirozabotevezege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/98984295398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/20197030059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d48c4dabdac4b94b6b95a39571e07a7/kelepebuxusutabulewiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g82todgj768s6t5l31mk6qseu0/wuvadakosajepagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1d85b54532a0ff4b97e18f8e9adda26/lorexakatapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecf726fffb---14247757516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021062400590044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lu2mlbf8iljm5qbguf2pv3kh9/53090416760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdelufefva3f42bdaj1l9k9v01/jewadosuvuzazikipuxebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a26caf22f---zopesuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45f57o4fj5kf2bhv1h8lprq0h5/57966634820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecobbfr.com/clients/4/43/4363d5a08aa72aedcf7f7d4dd0675897/File/92390233549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/puxijarekatusixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpba4rllji5u83ti4900268npl/muxas.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f5e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E9 18156 bytes
SHA-256: d73a311333bad0c29cf16b2399892f2ea6c5b5601e386d5374dcbbc25639cb72
font_01_sfnt_off00012446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12446 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C5D 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 029b3f0f03c15ebf0b57a96414bdbe16c674a3cb8a7de155fa12afaaa692fbb4