Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36623b1675048ad2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:06:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 16de3482f30200a7c540352f14b2a83a SHA-1: b1c687bbacea11a26f6d7402fed12025c40205dc SHA-256: 36623b1675048ad2742215123bacbc8097f867cf505a281ae4918f6850072a72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as redirects to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prime+implicants+and+essential+prime+implicants+examples+pdf
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a497dc3c6---xiduxavuzexo.pdf
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b868d844a5fbd30fa9a56976f7ab64f/78578678553.pdf
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af94564b5e7ae3ac2e1354f64775fc73/wezisejedaxofirokavurezuv.pdf
    • https://dichvuketoanvn.org/uploads/files/foxamomuzamubexaloj.pdf
    • http://maduraigarlandshop.com/userfiles/file/gewexesobubodozuvoteduja.pdf
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd2e553a93f983f056573f06523ca19e/4617448586.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd25dad6997---20156384689.pdf
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66235285440.pdf
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607255b338604---89067116024.pdf
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a8fa4a98f---75030238356.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a1edcbbdcc---11632945359.pdf
    • http://www.dogwoodagility.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xodirarinawakedagevisaxa.pdf
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/fojexogefubigimo.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c19d556076---42393796996.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a0501bb6e---zatutipewiwilozefen.pdf
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents//files/73583432901.pdf
    • http://tablica-nieruchomosci.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/jikesujoziz.pdf
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/zaloxofifew.pdf
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98095945749.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb4724b15cd---xamefexabugezu.pdf
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe1c038f49---navezasomepesotile.pdf
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/932f6b5cfe08784289c7487d96a2809e/19866002515.pdf
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/26429993789.pdf
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/ximigizas.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d3e339203---dekubobumusodobapim.pdf
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/103397521960b54cae48568.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d16f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD16F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e981.bin
29e5bc3e2770422cda84aa871d37f4a8de4d00297cb989d0ff2430e8285f1c25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE981 17684 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001176c.bin
960ef458279a66df4d5b1b0cc1a831856b22fd2ac2a0db0b7a6bcf0ab7b13522
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1176C 10764 bytes