Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0032725a6eac2ab8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:38:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9e7c5c846b5b53efbb52400d0900a051 SHA-1: c21b8c4ecf9661eea4b1d17112ca2de378677d9c SHA-256: 0032725a6eac2ab8c043633f83879c87ea0991169de54be7bf55f743f6b5ebba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. This behavior is characteristic of phishing campaigns or malware distribution schemes, where the goal is to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://udemadriatic.com/userfiles/files/nufisufesiterun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210713_7FC1AF74652A0B74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210503231643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6pp82sp3dj8lpr30u5no69r53/78941295546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88243561797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee8d3dcc4e4---xarubidugelesefejotinubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9805f1961e8e94379361cdce8384cd8/36004212625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89a2508efe---sovimulomuvuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h83ejm14fnre1pgg1gckdf8lk8/32165079038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/21033241505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/pojisolixogawofojifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9dd0a9ea69e71e579c553c69d74e8d7/16057008582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2ll1p8jr217gu8j1515su20t6/16769690441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rariwodumiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608186d0a5cc7---lunevenepubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a6046d3cd5740e3eb6015b04c204239/48711205914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aed6274a008---dafozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4giagbh2mjejspkv82k3jfelgc/gaxemigatovelonitisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/87921551509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/ginosinazima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a641f20f4db---dodokasesajejixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071529607c48---tibuziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29424173770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=letter+of+intent+militaryPDF 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_off0000e337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE337 17872 bytes
SHA-256: d528b0fc203c25f40cc8c107bd57e0c6f8a16876484f6fa13215810d488da14e
font_01_sfnt_off0001119e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119E 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 002d195821af89d5561864f2de8febeee08739234775254ac1208ad019159dfe
font_02_sfnt_off000128b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1