Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36e393cd99f69d13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-06-21 07:30:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f4cc3ac417bf6b47dcc7ee1cef14e29f SHA-1: f2e7f894a483af5469d9aadfdb9845310efeaad7 SHA-256: 36e393cd99f69d131ecdfaef22cec2b96eb3e53faf7ad1a007f5034dd115d385
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload.

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 http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/natasilalidopexumitu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/87274027043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1bbjp9b7e33fmeq9feri5pvkq/83930102355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0so598158jp2tqsnidpmbkfig3/16362121395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/26596699414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a848f3a4adb---84689849055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/40798523141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096232988ceb---fupivegubexiturimibajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-promotions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39468086352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf73edaf0c---robedusuxadolegol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/niwoguwetifapepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f117720423---vovivisolokokolivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/63027915077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a900418c91c9d04f5147455d7b2f9a34/lisutogudedemujetoroziki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d038065dc1---2785391129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79c585a1515e19fdade2bc899f60eb87/xiposurotuvevunumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/99438528081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=yeh+chand+sa+roshan+chehra+mp3+songPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f9b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B0 5580 bytes
SHA-256: d773b24750c2cdbadfda43f5244cbb72ede0bb4c5286aa3d448a32d7c3311fd7
font_01_sfnt_off00010c81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C81 11628 bytes
SHA-256: 69337295d6e583b19509e0d42b1883e6616728d1c6852865bc29e7f1264674fa
font_02_sfnt_off00013469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13469 10844 bytes
SHA-256: ac01a305d07591710048b27f9196a7cf73d84776b6283c9eef5e212e7a54d2d2