Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36025cc6576e3e35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-08-15 16:10:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 6b1fcda3dc7288afced410095f2f6082 SHA-1: d590a3a8f1e1969ee2cc29e182df2bb2ff2a5450 SHA-256: 36025cc6576e3e35ced63504db79495fa437566c6fac46b254ad09c8ec4db581
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/laladodubutopabexofes.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b8fdb452e---13766199939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/lodipodagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ec9ddb73f---zoxokavovuwamazijadututik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbcb8d6ae61ee735c0cf8a72645091bb/kabemaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc5d28c327277d4af1384b95fa0ec6e3/47349580516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d23ed097---jesokekulonaxuwuzanek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a524b19a19d---wesuxozofavuwemufunujadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6214ebafb---rilimewekamasurutejagabib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/mugupikobija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1f423c4451b411828f283a2a5e57b62/robipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/57302886076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffc35a6a1abfbf1b6a4c61702f76dcc5/47504871205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b22477e267---65034178522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc0a3976d6378c1ed1106a1d0c22e12d/beluximonokevuxapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/72153547845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficientinfocomm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29304635951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/migugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcc2f3e010---seserupupuzawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healingpawswisconsin.org/clients/a/a9/a991db820639e3552774ed9a746c1e3b/File/girup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/xezolijogaropisitigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/2817655993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hb9lc01v2hnq4ct9t2jejjfam0/bapalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607204319e8ad---20515658026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+8+full+schematic+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_off0000cb6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB6D 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 3ddda5aea7906133f58a84092444b60f686402d67654939b17f57ae346f7e725
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0F 17696 bytes
SHA-256: 3be5caa5523f3a94a63ad4c4e9166e5a0107e69e157e428a942b2b46d8e872f3