Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b36048a705015750…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-23 19:25:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dc2033e4fbe7408dd2ea9ffc544d2e00 SHA-1: 7f608865cf253e211bebc093c58527bc1e5ef537 SHA-256: b36048a705015750169341d4ba1f92cadc00aeecb57925b5f4f590821a6292c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+month+anniversary+quotes+for+friends
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/80904759577.pdf
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/43758336500.pdf
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6d178aa78b8a7cba1f58b479a1c14b2/volividoguza.pdf
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33431055585.pdf
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/005ca64737cb30d8f152758ecd004a0c/35300513873.pdf
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/97333164427.pdf
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/fazena.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0ea86e4230---93759924693.pdf
    • http://ucity68.com/clients/e/ea/ea220da86df44fb0ae3b7c8e8295ccc1/File/80810393920.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2f8d5a8a120fb39dbb381c9e9589d45/biwafuke.pdf
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607748452269c---pipimeziruxexu.pdf
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///2021619104613890.pdf
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d53cd2aa2d8b2cb737ce2e7e69062a84/depujisudujosap.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c673bd89a478c8a4fb44bf79d32ee98/63284801084.pdf
    • http://kinocosmik.ru/sadm_files/rakanilepagenileku.pdf
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/824307686.pdf
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/5085905719.pdf
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70sujh8fpre4omaojg9rg81th2/65749871355.pdf
    • http://yetisirkaucuk.com/firma/files/29024667877.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c19050e415db26209eded36f988772a/tukosugixuwadopimaj.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0cc05e9ad---kenan.pdf
    • http://paliukenas.lt/i/File/patuzudafifoxiloronaba.pdf
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/2797780508.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ffaa.bin
95f6991355a53e1b919f98c79d4c25824998301b568376be61c7528bcf212a55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAA 18028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012e56.bin
183e1ec3991f99ebea8933db18e18f7710d9f79e964e976ea11e7c712fd81b15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E56 11024 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000147a3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147A3 16792 bytes