Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32770535c8a38a43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:25:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d6567014cfdc1cfc4b61b2e1c0fc66ca SHA-1: 6b9826959754df796c35629fd4e410a15767c088 SHA-256: 32770535c8a38a43ce7186637c8c65fb4036ed0e860837c78f8f0a605e05b2dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress installations, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to further malicious content or downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+beast+roller+coaster PDF link annotation
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd6e478b73---36343486601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56fae992a4---fitivoletanuwese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/jizobiwonuzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4l79hrjfbjfk68htrtksqbsi0/nemutowegedosolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60670969786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc7daaddef---xudixesuwujobisakoxazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0612524f99c181923f6a7de099a4c197/fekewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7cbb5149a---lisesexujipezazorav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/todufevaselagodexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af97dd6b1eb---lotiwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff4bf69366---kejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pegasinarif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/54290484368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/gisetagotulatuxedito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/74342802360.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_off0000e619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE619 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 6e6c1fda90c9c9db62a2afc3009de0c5ad814e7b46b3637e6d5fdd31215e8e24
font_01_sfnt_off00011284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11284 10232 bytes
SHA-256: b3d756a03dad2b1d0f765d8602f85390cb17c4de12118604dfb6d66a806f0fdf
font_02_sfnt_off000129b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1