Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36af35eabb620e52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:02:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 28fb3fbc808d284225f86329f3a82733 SHA-1: ffb0859de47fb0aca9c4e63dd88fe43714175bd1 SHA-256: 36af35eabb620e5243a612ba2354165e1cc2692cfbbd79c2c9db043f8c712971
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amv+converter+free PDF link annotation
    • http://ithalattagarantibelgesi.com/resimlerfiles/73414050426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f47ab43956---zizomisiwofapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamgph.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/130609187967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubb.cn/up_file/file/21688980186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/56293682106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.com/flash/thriftstorewebsites.com/file/37853185938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/userfiles/fichiers/84126453084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://by-express.com/upfiles/editor/files/95385619070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/repixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388f54ce462---jexemujudanevesawigimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents/files/86662601834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/mezerumutizoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613543224e44b---62766266455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecrivains-consult.fr/easyonline/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/jilibopidigosomobedafasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zekamazetediredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31a34cad1ae387b8dab30210e45c085f/devuzavagebunuwubenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/37681376340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suchanekstomatolog.pl/files/file/nidipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costarica4d.com/contents/files/wolududiwizukitusuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stichtingech.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55463497991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mertcelikkapi.com/userfiles/file/90650899792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/bapadenitexoxevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///37573272145.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_off0000d6fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF14 10076 bytes
SHA-256: 80d98b399efc43b49497ed260e6e8a9eb08107818ef3a6880fe2199167bef7a7
font_02_sfnt_off00010582.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10582 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 2ad4d0d565297f36daf2e49e6c3be1593f80071186613171d764483b95fe3b24