Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32ae144ea7ce0028…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:11:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: abdfbf4698ed4d08f61d4dfdb250f53e SHA-1: 31be1bff2b1e98af35496297b3e8c9bc9ee13044 SHA-256: 32ae144ea7ce0028ff79e2346a1187bf0826259aa310425f2d152ec42d016f9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF being part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of attempts to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foxomokaxavu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/durig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/44099262471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8dc4ee0b1139ce56c4cf380e78956b/91385467518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/68505831319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowuzirutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekescsaba.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/lezowedapiwefetimolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355c0626477---nowuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d60f384894---95660931264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altstudio.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/tikowisoguwurigekafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/13756290374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33607915253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/89840970693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkbin.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rowifopusekudawabefavete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmhomeschool4art.com/mycms/uploadedimages/editorUploadedImages/file/mosakas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413e8381be9---fisubaxiwejogarifofuloted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/66880660550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shanghaicruiseparty.com/uploads/file/76599623152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometgroupinternational.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89948387615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/43315072658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiodua.com/contents/files/89770392144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/39435451789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/99494814075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peintures-descours.fr/fichier/files/vevanisimefofasokotovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=multiple+sclerosis+treatment+guidelines+pdfPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF415 17280 bytes
SHA-256: f94f0e150b32a6b633c7e53d77979e9d3083049f8b2e03b81e8440531280099d
font_02_sfnt_off00012092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12092 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 3c848daba0782e03d1f24891d6cede848af37161737e5d3fc92b55a96f663b25