Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 936fa29f593f8d4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 23:00:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 101322d5732a8366d6e139984eb03ee0 SHA-1: e21852fe37b3c44bad7b4a79d94ae219145ecd98 SHA-256: 936fa29f593f8d4e150a38e8915f1062f53e73972f666ad6cc154f120ffb47f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is used to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The URLs extracted, such as 'https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=distributed+operating+system+by+andrew+s+tanenbaum+pdf+free+download', are likely part of a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking and visiting these malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=distributed+operating+system+by+andrew+s+tanenbaum+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8bacbfd466754c14f727e4d8321a76/68941430295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ih1rufpuaioju7q3pdfrc8md/pawelutebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782f374b3fe---56562119859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-zlato.sk/upload/files/fefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088357dabf31---zoforatasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/29752407141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sga7hv95fle00bs0l38n8lio57/6395428644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cd1a38058091b7d24ab687212509465/21364273633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/raseledipof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ec892bf95---legawete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72jnpubbr6e52ns6kp1vulh771/poxuduvulejobavaxoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/94804928585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/nimajugogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b92cf14547cbbd584a7e8c63f0762d3/dofowaruwawobawusivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fd6fd7a52---jesesonatovowotodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210622144051_7zg17z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ee83c39d5---45384300415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7674e01a021d399e27bcca6018ac822/85764547950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdd2ed0165---91434918872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/91821029033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608978961af74---zuxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1be74dea848da4a877b1f862ec0f5ec1/2679161240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/263d3579f5affffa1f46e2d9ea0398e4/52533037947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/bizoruxire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf3fda25fe34e46cf700d57081d50f5a/9582044201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clap-bas.com/userfiles/file/dawidomivo.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_off0000f398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF398 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010baa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAA 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 4f2b1710e88c8e62d8382ef27bddee51fd2949f4c33664cffacc478f7f7a05b7
font_02_sfnt_off0001375a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1375A 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 36aab2893b4df61739acbe184893f8af28dc463274b3dce076c5bf4f5928a563