Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 324373afaf8a2003…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:22:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5fc346ac843edc5748a9089b2d2c5529 SHA-1: cdafe3428703828d731d4ab4991ab954ca6f30e7 SHA-256: 324373afaf8a2003da57fcb799520a7cc7403003f5e6ef5a3ef5b5401308be72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this, likely directing users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=poem+reading+comprehension+grade+4+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://barexkft.hu/userfiles/file/niguxupemonusezarazupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motacademy.it/file/70454007686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a801180fa5fa9ef84f4c589d538ff6d/keratobifinefetepoger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab27d18587e---jamow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/7514294347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/tupatesefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htbestcomputer.com/media/ftp/file/ketarefirivovagego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7666801c83---reduzetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/210807214752176184l84ywn6p8emg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766aa2b5b9f---97075203643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ad9ad6653---sijuzeworogaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/livewupovamajorokemuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iaido-iaijutsu.ru/userfiles_exc/giketesujinujiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/bujuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dothanhigh1970.com/clients/6/63/63ba8bdc6fdca46b25bb56d5732eafc9/File/2563014097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84993f4f3fd04f41d080fcbf2fdd8a94/musuvuzorivuzuforewojapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/59609419449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isag9cpd83p7u3obdt0hna2q45/18147202894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/73776494085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podhoru.cz/userfiles/file/45692373707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87874129707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgie9pks3l7eg5ta9u3ga5t1ja/37900879596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct5g39pjpo.tw/upload/leakstop/files/62175073924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ae26cdcdd---13518406661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47fa349013---87090012219.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_off0000b66f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB66F 15340 bytes
SHA-256: d66f330ee3a365d872806861f4e467be5542ae47f008243b24c6907f83d0fe3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD22 11004 bytes
SHA-256: d87ba529e23a132e322d5e7e552deaac323ae94fb7971502f5646f206cf3506d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f64a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1