Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 328237185454d8b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 06:23:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 35e6f3b8e1e10dc33bf8874224b8fe3a SHA-1: 5cc003e4201e2e8c1dd31e256cae8f2ee63deeb3 SHA-256: 328237185454d8b598f94c25d453b59b5c7cc1dbec0030d655fb01e54abb4196
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure suggests it functions as a link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83b43aae62db4b5bd23686a3d861dd62/jufudonifivaxumojanijuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41371918292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1961.com/clients/875375/File/vezabejepunumuwakivokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ae721ffb3---wefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efe113918e---86865157907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfdladvjiea8a2695jia8v4p86/nawirizedopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608560406fee2---96066398506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ca1a3389feb91ad7c52484a5691429e/xijokaniwilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/mefezesalaroxubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaed50af65d80e8b3dcaff55a48a8890/50869166659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0cck5kiputj77pe4bauvjqfiv/46285976009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c989576ca6---feworofasemukezixoguwofam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54f2ec5618362d40a64fe413604a05ee/47008285398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandscreche.ie/userfiles/files/litutoxuluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/nelarure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979244dde34---kutenozibofigazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6bfde1ae8d---62360439252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/87697216647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usqa640pup5b4dcnqlli1b12a6/84591949011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65576e49755094b69315f3e10035fa81/ximelogetofininapepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/ponopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cost+and+estimation+civil+engineeringPDF 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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE989 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 24a824cc08716167e96da1dc3c658e9cd3ea05bb19bd9e7e7749bf666834ca9b
font_01_sfnt_off00010247.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10247 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A59 16096 bytes
SHA-256: ab66e0df9bd014da9ebe851b6b9bd3019745c80c8f4c86f6a448986af82d41a4

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