Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e36827c4ed4dd2ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-17 04:32:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 032d30ae69751296f5281722aa5e3765 SHA-1: 0c813fa24ab408043bb03e7715731613a38a6a5c SHA-256: e36827c4ed4dd2ace98776299adb8b0c7812c46c83a3f7fb3f9fe30690b6feb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and contains numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many links to external resources suggests a redirection or lure mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligigobabobavudoputubu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/kepapenazofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815b825c8bf---nabewawozezapunaniteno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e54fbe0f00c5f7ab01e15019def41cab/fagexutulubukubedewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6b947ba1b---74363228162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadiumhighschoolclassof1965.com/clients/0/00/0080f9a3d0f10e930bcfc39f0a940e94/File/defukisejozedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c3b251456a9ac5197dd13516a5b2ef9/medotetapubavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/nipuvugukuwanoxenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/58819793547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/17632887532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/wowunajunazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f576cbd3ae4---lodebufifivisixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da25fd46d2a---31713280792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/84683776973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcmcpropertyblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff511cfdc358a359a96584705333a55/83058956661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/lakugobewumitofojusomofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stemcellhairclinic.com/files/files/30341844925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=spelling+power+grade+8+lesson+8+answer+keyPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD560 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 1c5cf0d84f24bc739472dec5043418e6e915839b54a9eb3625281cb87294cefd
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF04 16860 bytes
SHA-256: a3aebe074c1dfca3b72c067ff75a63be99612db4ce3e9b8537b8b7142df404ff
font_02_sfnt_off00011af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1