Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36cbc3dd0ea5638a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:23:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fa012df7ebc5eefa2c0fa62d629e4b78 SHA-1: 97ebf5b50757e1499858acfdd2da4c48783d7a8f SHA-256: 36cbc3dd0ea5638a467bce2186c7e2907403c04ba53aa87c37f0a007ab04532c
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 0.9963

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=number+31+tracing+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/69548733349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e1c4e9b68---mamod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nonaxapumuzotunubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/97764990646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/62602041498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa31295fae---rexewulaxovaxuzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/37191564411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/zejigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagstyle.uz/images/file/59543882581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/guvefakadutesiwezeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents//files/9479036661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/370f1fdbb035c33fc5aa245ed05b5b86/11666084834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipssecurityconsultants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vgkbuilders.com/assets/files/78409417963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleangroupbd.com/ck/upload/files/57491067473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/tomisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b73b46f5ff---63987634815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/loxamofubejowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/jigamotofenaxugibaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-songshi.com/admin/upimg/file///vesumadigazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ceb6c6a065---kakibusijutubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/87458307053.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_off0000c4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4FD 11248 bytes
SHA-256: bbfc5ecaac5178874c2c354c01a04acc387643773b4c2025e5ff1cb09fa4e970
font_01_sfnt_off0000df5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f76e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76E 17676 bytes
SHA-256: f9c1b91913adeddb536446cf6a05c9fbc7ffaf695d3ebb2d95a8e79c4a19f0f7