Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36b05ac98e9ff10a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:14:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a1ba9027b2a1f089a8ce645770fa45d1 SHA-1: 19c91ac4a7fa7ea9c70efb811b2ac9ae4056426e SHA-256: 36b05ac98e9ff10a99fd205bb2dab5e67af848061fae7c3450b47409e0205897
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of urgency and download button lures further supports this phishing-like attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/26035058397.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8382d99d9---87665780011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/42119044705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c87f9b7a572d4bb924d84f355fcd9a3/kobusuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608593faad8dd---rulukel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a0d8b813e---wafefojezisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/jivajufusedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09742a8c5c3a25325eb764ca7b77b9c9/vifafibadakedozilovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/622223615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/limatexakova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0098996fe08aeb7e31fe6a3c0cf07835/56126029827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zenufugazotigonurexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b65983b91d---xifirefevugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/kadotusid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/64208446351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/20650594241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/17740863295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087be73905c6---duteginugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/70551343670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70b7ae96eb4d65e5ce2ec63372de41d9/xixasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/54387979488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/litamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/vubobaden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soft-print.pl/app/webroot/media/files/gukivivuvubupaner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9rnk4fb72k7tbriqnbo3boi90/73970532506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=12th+accountancy+book+cbsePDF 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_off0000efc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC2 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 2cc9055cbea35ad3c333526916e67d036b7804df1acae541ea07d2e00fe581d2
font_01_sfnt_off00010826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10826 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12038 17344 bytes
SHA-256: cd2acbe024618e8651c1ee4279928421052895baa587f5bbd2bc3e1634f78301