Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d32a9644036b6c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:01:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: b36fcf75b533e5b70f90b3f4beee0e65 SHA-1: 2113fa6781ef8155f8bdc7abd41ed5c8da3995c4 SHA-256: 0d32a9644036b6c0953bd2fcb886152921f807764ace7c97dac42043fb265ecd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm intended to redirect users. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, further supports the malicious intent, likely to facilitate phishing or download further payloads. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/68352444712.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader/file/83343951333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/wonaxadetafemamixoraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42450169725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61e9766dc85389d83df8cecb3dfeabc6/94301021049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613663c9b0368---21320986827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161407e92e6882---88457216022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korvioinfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83848073630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66560020218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/45991736798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zensushidanapoint.com/uploads/files/15692217637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/mujilimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/94032094460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crcnueva.naturasoftware.com/uploads/images/files/xokajovogetitogijamemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6t7l26hb22v40ctskd449eljg8/jalesatotokutagibojamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/rorewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vexoxubudizujepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109021012409895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/55834661659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/pejuvafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jatransfer.com/userfiles/file/daropazobofazaketusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quimis.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3847678443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/81378873319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmachine.ru/d/files/lerujujigujole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/xotatubutujagodezaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnumprint.ru/upload/files/7773937558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=basic+and+clinical+pharmacology+15th+edition+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000c74a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC74A 17104 bytes
SHA-256: 6bf17e151b683cf47f695ba999e84bdff25835ada2b6f055ec0ca36da76c7b5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF368 11504 bytes
SHA-256: 6669ce02b469e0cb15b158d50e0ae6174726ed41573ba7ec109f8592ef56e064
font_02_sfnt_off00010e6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1