Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 836d95596765b1f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.5 KB Created: 2021-08-15 00:56:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 89764c06fc1b22dc37977169c2f5d110 SHA-1: d8ed1a7b6e93000263be7b9bdec3190397fea305 SHA-256: 836d95596765b1f88032c60a6cdf831af3707c825d416c4b6549fb60b2f8a22b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, likely to facilitate the download of further malicious content. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/64146856376.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33lde5d6rldau5o0858mgq1b4s/76601993539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6eeb1783a---gurogufanudot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/56651771923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/45221046496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/16390155320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c78f1aaeafe6fe47d21417eec0b204d/wobapanugubutefiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/29292069297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/63302497772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/xewanixonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/lanune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/rabadudolevofitikuset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guss-ex.de/uploads/fck/file/pomutikibeletanir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawa757.com/uploads/files/42619294252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ad93b5388---lutikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/25588928807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce5df0ec4dabad8e41fecadf7b49ef6b/10451308414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094a6aa0988257a2ef37726a66049e47/rotiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607282fa7d413---32061088619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/xakibirotajogukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.come/file/11026723453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce79101c07a---kawodoponutilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.com/scauserfiles/files/79748187528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mano+county+uncopylocked+v3PDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/25912762884.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000133ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014c05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C05 10684 bytes
SHA-256: edd11370c20abc06be7b578c22f06ac1ad009e24be343ebea7dabe73aac1d9c4
font_02_sfnt_off000164c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164C0 20108 bytes
SHA-256: 1f7ac91a1b2cd50cb29356e55e595a2a97aea3ab263d02b9404de2a2ae86e5d0
font_03_sfnt_off0001994e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1994E 4116 bytes
SHA-256: 2d03d71d559178180c8cb9dff8869389fec4dc29cf47df1abb3a6fd35a6c71ff