Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32115c3fa2074ff1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 20:36:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: b978b0bf61d5cb6c6eae3c9d98ed6acd SHA-1: 137b176ab34d5c76a6e21d9f23c2a4ff17ad02d3 SHA-256: 32115c3fa2074ff1bd2e3d5157a4a32d61a7d1d3ec8f5a88ff5eea10768cc9b1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service, a common lure for phishing attacks. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malware or submitting credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/42457347938.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iktoktatas.hu/files/file/xanikimisamawivuzosil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/73898356416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/44120255605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137955be9c74---69551733082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/xeremefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jonazatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s4l.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/91121449706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/pikurinugabiduwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/21893279065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents/files/lisuxiluvovezifijepatode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endeligmandag.no/e-brev/data/div/18330294101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b7e8228bf8f02ceaea08e5c958e61c2/7641951722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datosexobagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2552b54ef---33226643692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekmeta.lt/failai/file/83409137992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/77635240692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balbu.hu/uploads/news/file/38431817310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/mesapufejipokixirufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntiverification.com/userfiles/file/dufonogurobolimanove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210909065453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/98552019011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6133103120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/12059034238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+will+not+send+text+messagesPDF 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_off0000e094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE094 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A6 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 78eb83464e6480ae231fe298cf9672f394f4f3e3e2f49d9fcddf316e8fb6c86d
font_02_sfnt_off00012676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12676 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4720f67ea800266ec1bbe03043fc73ffac311911f8f62894263c5a6dc65c01