Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 320c764637a44432…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 16:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d2b8524e1bed5655e9a8eb780d9f435a SHA-1: 1ffe30ab4024665ac1b24eb50cf31f3f115842c2 SHA-256: 320c764637a44432d84b67b6d7df4edaaf3c6cded3c77ae0bf9780e24f341abe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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 http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/kezetilikewebus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/seleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/74421364124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210714023326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608083a95b31f---96209244218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/balobegikuxunilojubupiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2035d46377a25f0c99ae374bac735b83/81832529592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61bc1c514e---30441193542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14baa7d24a---jogemudidurexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc53ea0b4c---4811013007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyland-nsk.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95019113424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/18010052811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://408of53crownstreet.com/assets/media/files/difibiduvagijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2413c3d77b52b5114433326aab1fe1e7/59124356723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natproperty.com/userfiles/files/gifapugepujidewoxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2efb9b7a606af49818fee5086a196f52/gezeferiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4b111f72e---13389754398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/43206814004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/sifigukivawonamariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a15900dd783d1836b13c99735207db91/luwiwugoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/famike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c741ca42e4f---bokukijuferivapafaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/rafibexibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/60009350164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bfc9d24168f---15296916475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/vevuwuvepadulexadobavevow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=sonic+adventure+2+battle+chao+guidePDF 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_off0000f015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF015 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001082c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082C 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 5a7b0f1c14a4b6eb8320e66aed3cb0954fa62d0c892aa97a3517e87fc38a3666
font_02_sfnt_off0001217b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217B 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 9fdaeabe38de15673bc0de957e50bd248859d37b8a16788d2b45793d304b415a