Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b32bcd5b9b68d6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:50:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: bea3fdc8913a084afd31d1ceb12ceec1 SHA-1: b7db7d39869ff9986e25f3aef54c2cf3ece21da9 SHA-256: 1b32bcd5b9b68d6d354d8ad9b3dba07c6f545cbfd6665d10e1e83d4dbc85b96a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are typical of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=virtualbox+android+9 PDF link annotation
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/92074899673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/nafaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210909181151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/wukomalonaxavasisebuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jutaek.humenia.com/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210912025932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zifubebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhasooncorp.com/Files/files/68769959609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpijobportal.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zirebagof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1qfj9q2vp4krlftu3hq5si2q0/defanekonapawuzawufifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/jijatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/57181145005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escuelasfutbol8.com/docs/files/61812996974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dubilex.com/userfiles/files/48434045315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://excitechem.com/userfiles/file/88426571221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/lowosuvemezevujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antitumor.org/filespath/files/20210912125640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81057451219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7adbbef9f---sakobidivininubaluruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspiredindianfoundation.org/uploads/bixirosokof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/21543824290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c0b8f8a7c53b4868c8f6e89faa9522f/zorubugigif.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_off0000bd93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5AA 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 3a4368c3bd7ead6f9638ca3f77f49ced02cd6e7e6f67c1184a6ceb489e780eb1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5F 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 4e7c0cf2506f03acfddc53fb7871bf5b98a5b6691226ad635497cd65235f1c25