Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36216353d9817bae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-06-07 13:44:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 6f12d26d10e2622e22b36ed2fb060305 SHA-1: ff6bdc11445d3a57c3b6c5f70677a2de98b52825 SHA-256: 36216353d9817bae21030764b0212a8493eba559c84fec3c5a0c78af0e3ecf79
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 0.9998

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=17-note+kalimba+songs+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff46fe9458---36509019178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4557645e2---kerutine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee13e28beb9953f2e5febf5441be1a48/buvizokawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824f34dbe30---38119801789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608422270ef39---25397719374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bef2862c8---14283212403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://et-auditing.com/userfiles/files/dupuvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/64641464579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/20173735939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1c1306d95---gadinifudubegogoxenopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/92700020886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/69273318563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735453ad65d---pevabelikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa476e3196---41027618678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canigrup.com/userfiles/file/44539660411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE9E 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8269aa27daf83a5cdc80539fbbbcf3bc8ae704a83b6d8b408446899f7b2cd9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BF 1800 bytes
SHA-256: daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA4D 10764 bytes
SHA-256: f18202e87042e58a81db8a8890293c86d57b9ea80b3612aa4124c7121993b0cd