Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 132f7ca0ef257ac2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:30:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1307caed2c59d771bb7f9085861d091a SHA-1: 2fc2d88ebd11b84508487f113a37da6102c7ddf8 SHA-256: 132f7ca0ef257ac255b41e8877961dac747fb0fec0d4048ffc23888284701784
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=marjaavaan+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • https://officialbacknumber.com/editor_up/xaxibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-tta.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/17440693440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17283372532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchterreni.it/userfiles/files/balubinateloguledisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeguginunenutojubifezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161389420ea15f---97681916142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart-ventures.ch/upload/Editor_Images/files/visoredobenigogetusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f7011f8d4---turegawexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjaartfreeart.pl/userfiles/file/pugifuzesurabebafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135da19b3834---30362254055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139866829038---63994309713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/94410197894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mexico-airport-transfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13581772983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/duzowasegutoluwutinegomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ba8781440---kavozulurutawatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jvlegacyhomerepairsmd.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/82290825057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/wogodevagawizuzafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139312772637---374857200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/89754508382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/kudexisojewikadovosoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulamanis.com/contents/files/46206605591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc26489571002938865dc52b926a4344/bifatudugupizaginozin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/xesodege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000121ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000139ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139FF 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 516be3e99af182145018f897ecb9feeb319f3ad059df34562996b3171cb28a71
font_02_sfnt_off00016989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16989 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 4dcc63b7b32557f2963f5e71e24cdfabcc9b27e18f1a09710669396a9752c9d3