Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 436e626c10bfe575…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-09-27 12:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 60ea2779d2379f32a6ca466102b9ee17 SHA-1: 87e155e75846d08054bab8d99aa274ccf1575c73 SHA-256: 436e626c10bfe575f7b6d96c4185754b71dcad7d676954c8de29de35b4f17371
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical for phishing campaigns, and contains numerous external links. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicates malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mega+apk+download+android PDF link annotation
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/file/74910507965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109231456004784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/39432939727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/84556581700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cozycornerexpress.com/uploads/files/57599252356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315593b3d4e---8995791138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/depewaximorazopiderutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--espaoldetalca-lkb.cl/var/www/html/upload/file/41193618621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/wolobavuzesoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/7454696620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidaoxc.com/upload/files/lijolanavigideso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mamafoundation.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86744172384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tamilsaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22124108186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soskuwait.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/86967452806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/forafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/xafudapaxawefafefusut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wietsevoermans.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4240249129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/jemifesawuwimewaposom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/85065966525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonlawhouse.in/userfiles/file/98117736095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e63be541d---jeroxubuzinofivaxoduzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aggmy8c6c.net/UserFiles/File/11846388425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3406740862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161515b50789ac---86049511781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e56663bb4---tufuwe.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_off0000b014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB014 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 3dbca0b81a452b64db637be99f32384a7acf0d17749feb2b735545e9f35944bf
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7BF 14296 bytes
SHA-256: f67b9ca74218a554b78cd7076a19b45120d0c6e1e53fe670a9dbca4c97dd6bbf
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1