Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32a0d918f94de92d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-08-13 13:42:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 9bd79ee89fcbc5c72161e61a8cf408ad SHA-1: f6d8207b21c3b34eb3c78e0effc273f202be646c SHA-256: 32a0d918f94de92d30c9357138d0ed8e51c32086ab2050eadcb28f16fb33a8b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9866

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+bypass+the+lid+switch+on+a+hotpoint+washer PDF link annotation
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb5d3f4100---4899436654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/juvivatoxevusefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609847c058446---80584330656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd0a0d6ae1---86359992209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45072d32ba06f34462b8ceb61c808a78/27889515723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2212de9eda49dbb42a063da7a945c48/lamesewekowabewinidebevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732c7a142db---83943320396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/viredip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/33959759945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96459341018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9b8bfbfe2d75934dc316bd884a073e9/vipotiwibuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b51c90265ab---dunizaviwupiresonekaviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/77225749175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/89812918295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limobebe.com/userfiles/files/patafog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/85736237909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d848e70ccce4ae823fa777dfb30b00e/wigekagabazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnhhgj.com/upfiles/userfiles/file/piburibekagilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/wozuzedupaporumuruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1942419379cd1e0f381389e854f7b2e0/97898068399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksocu0g1mte9bmteelv96kfj3p/6243824786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/76614309159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/80491269633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/59799707185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/4495124144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32721904473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7981b4837---39195593276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omg.su/upload/File/gokilarudunelokarewukix.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_off00010c4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C4C 16892 bytes
SHA-256: d921766009f7242a8648a9700eab9071bff39fd37b94aa95bc860cb01a8cfd8f
font_01_sfnt_off00013856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13856 10940 bytes
SHA-256: d7d41082dfc9813316b6fdf34d2f75e0a40114f0e6c1456d7dd176e0836ded38
font_02_sfnt_off00015175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15175 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1