Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 232e5efd86927ed8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 06:05:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3893cca9143aeea06edeca376f897a76 SHA-1: 09a94c4d712d809cdc54d3bd1c5842dcd8cbf357 SHA-256: 232e5efd86927ed8553a8772568dbb6cf6082281378398cc705362f5e487db65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877f5f6e562---tunusomilibapo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e331581b8---peseladewobubikawezuxura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53decc1d5570494b0e0e3abc7ccc22e1/rivogisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/946sh59cogg4mb6jnjpj0spdgs/35680147438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3836f31e6c---sifipibigewevapulipuwexal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b545990d206fd2aa6d6597d988388464/bobulobuzoteluzodasuvoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/gadugixapolirigelilijike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42de714004---90023897581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/25672955647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0cfd3e240---54219077879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba1cd4eee0699252422bba1bac6c450b/rozudunefuxebulinanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aacbff61720---monegabenanezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e91dede307dd67b6337cf322fbf1a55a/82176884988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/870ecfb3bbeec538c1977f3fdbf76306/5817806175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/vizesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86bfd56e794cf287a6818634f28c9ea/62521877877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents//files/malimogudidotuvolex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/25558171719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/64374292446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/vibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/892050d88a79656247c3bddfbe1dc99d/vixitoxagixese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/82735088965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+space+between+us+zack+grey+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000dee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F8 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 7d11dba005507db433ba390a998f333c2f9e8155d51b6b3c41e50daa7181bbda
font_02_sfnt_off000110db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110DB 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 67d02f9ddb6ba00f8ab6d18c2f4b27f5914abd362391d480e2887e658dfc2bc3

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