Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e36c2ab09779204…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:11:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 92f586b868e4bb76b48b2ad737166fe0 SHA-1: 470fd419db7569960e14afb9a5f40ec8db5194bc SHA-256: 6e36c2ab097792045bc3b47063864e388b0f007a0be03e88d29d70b9ee9578c2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a deceptive workflow. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pile+buck+sheet+pile+design+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/81799932928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaithun.net/upload/files/51414045309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d9fc7ca5f---28854375306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a786f9d3a0a---teralirunuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperugia.fr/userfiles/file/pugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/rofexurejafusikarujigoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/tixutazapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferest.ro/imagini_ws/ritagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/55351055327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7bf2048c5ae3e8ef32e5fd4d15d9011/kobovupomixagosokowitina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/15345071069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d93c0cbe644---10891377908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.lv/images/hand_uploaded/files/nupupeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manualismedicina.hu/fileok/file/94626039101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investincarpathians.eu/app/webroot/media/files/wurob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/wigikusikakejupebeguvonon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/44099617057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ea142f5da---pilekodidawuduneropiweze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210829210036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/2730416297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/10369371134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/kuwexos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19e1d6f5d1576446a2e5612f49a7f954/23384450627.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_off0000d804.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD804 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF016 17500 bytes
SHA-256: c1ecaf45cf4566042661a241b258693193cc81b0ea215c058b9e9c38e65b6d6f
font_02_sfnt_off00011cfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CFB 11180 bytes
SHA-256: a75c5445fc391accee4fac5fe951420561eb2b40c0eb0cbe1591c60e6e48d88e