Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32288f36bddb12e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-30 20:50:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: a37477bfae99a1386dea182c41fffd92 SHA-1: 290539f4a2f0ed52f2c5183e8b733900c0d6ac1f SHA-256: 32288f36bddb12e54c9128399a59b789bc454479cdd61531f00746cee52e3cf2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic firings related to link farms confirm the attack pattern of directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/fibizivasiriwuvaliwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/36092843414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8a5cfa89fd604cca6871650f3a2a84e/58178388874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitpoint.tw/userfiles/file/30714699152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/62037231514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08a4e7987c3e7c26e689a93e59e469c4/vetafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/varituwibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/wexukumexibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/38118314884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/40546015208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/devajekusafoduram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f70732c9d---tuxofukukope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/44116616757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a079d04cfff---59373571676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b002ee8eb4e---vifapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7a5901a51ca3787908b3200faffe95/10951870065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcongluc.com/upload/files/72160896189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41bc44b16e098012c4654f6cc4f39cc6/26917195811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c10d7ae04f539989503e596a9e92e86/wunuvafisesitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/15109900836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendoodlesofthesierranevadas.com/userfiles/file/tigenevuvogewimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/mafaxowikokopipoduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wipawumitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94047280625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelskadm.ru/files/uploads/files/16865827790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordavril.com/userfiles/file/7033312189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4858fbf31f042d512440b72a6868dcaa/fuviditurazidamafalemipif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=my+mind%27s+telling+me+no+but+my+bodyPDF 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_off0000f005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF005 17596 bytes
SHA-256: cd4f90fd5289e794402e577d1807f2d63951cfb0f12986c2531cd279e12eec1f
font_01_sfnt_off00011e30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E30 10708 bytes
SHA-256: b5a3947efff555eac6dee62cac2c7ddb5faa4f69ae1581318784555063b13c37
font_02_sfnt_off00013693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13693 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1