Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32a5404a694edf6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:46:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cc78fec3e502cff5c771b01e8c345d8d SHA-1: 328da59a5aa56752daa9f690b2d763d03fdf3117 SHA-256: 32a5404a694edf6b751b5d55371beb55732cf8f677a9f384b7ded675f0961474
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and a download button lure reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80076b6b7e0ae947d54f1b710c6ac9a2/juzusibobixatipawetos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/61166779721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeaf3b82e2f---94080212883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64c5b93bed85fb27dd2f8b1a20f26105/84197527117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vurapado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sheeld.org/clients/d/d0/d021426cee8527c21a172be12ef3d645/File/69630748440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/wugemoxenukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11e5682a7b---73308753052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/nuwexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5f13779ce---jarovevuzisepavamow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210628_C742CE1BECE8A29F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/lojofolita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608593b8892fe---22773311470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoto.us/Images_upload/files/37322350630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/xejiluramigiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventechsite.com/files/files/zepodewexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b080aac677c90c83de2717d8a583c067/19984929030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borisovhlebprom.by/var/upload/file/36081138901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/6544713252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/pesupadudimakirosuwazavap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988e0b988ab---zoluwasimewuzokuvobogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c95be4eec6---68126777158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/86197478445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/64069483224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xawamowasobazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cut+pdf+by+pagesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE461 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 6140932459bd48c914b01d585c47505dcee73107fcef7838f5009cc362f0c78c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11477 18476 bytes
SHA-256: 3b5f2a89f1ffc39c92627ecf90c521bb71840be1364e18d6d5ea55761d9cdc0b
font_03_sfnt_off0001447c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1447C 2120 bytes
SHA-256: d379e7e33a0c3d504827bd609d060491fcf925ac03517036953345ed3fb6af85