Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 032608685e3ab5f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 18:56:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8bf74d2fc5678398a2fd6e329e513368 SHA-1: 6b89585e12744272f231a59f65ff7f85a5301606 SHA-256: 032608685e3ab5f3b5fedf75788b6c90fda6086584035a9f892e672f9c2555ff
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised or disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of urgency and download button lures, combined with the link farm, points to a phishing or social engineering attack designed to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 https://ctapigroup3.com/contents/files/13576473074.pdf
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109122315529958.pdf
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/sakik.pdf
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42441872587.pdf
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5154b9cc33552e563453a0e3ca4416d4/vimimi.pdf
    • http://swissies.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gibewut.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421c1636cc9---nadoxeviruremur.pdf
    • https://myagenda.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/gopokado.pdf
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81450876625.pdf
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87664a8f755fed27cfd3ca5284f1e81/zutugavenako.pdf
    • https://wintechindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50398954959.pdf
    • https://jechrina.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/xazifataxur.pdf
    • https://afma.pt/site/upload/file/93740738035.pdf
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/gafofapelel.pdf
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/posoduwajimowawugovop.pdf
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/14918658701.pdf
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/dakavajexusujifawiwewuv.pdf
    • https://www.zolmedis.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/padamavawufug.pdf
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/71865378790.pdf
    • http://mmsmarin.com/imgimage/file/40289492930.pdf
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/damegi.pdf
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/zivutevukeretodeguxubegu.pdf
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/59605844345.pdf
    • https://wanfutemple.urwaydesign.com/data/file/userfiles/files/bilumozewo.pdf
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/zuzone.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=8bp+auto+win+mod+apk+2020
    • 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_off0000df32.bin
73cce3aab3d55d14df4a7b3becfe0b5ab5da42740aa5f086789b91560cf45da0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF32 18660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001105a.bin
4e8a79ff41af1e40cc7539a0334e50f0ac7c4bf9862c12eebcdf9e636c466971
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105A 17380 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013bc0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC0 16792 bytes