Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32b593299e679f63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-06-23 11:05:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ee6b8e050283031487fb8dbaf2a67827 SHA-1: c7cc95f5b0c943f5dfdf9409c269028e6e695ece SHA-256: 32b593299e679f63bf944fd902927c047a963501abd018ffdf798598e30a4a2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+whole+seed+catalog+2021+pdf', are designed to redirect users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+whole+seed+catalog+2021+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607506048dd24---94525714352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2ab2582b8---53966021764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d9dbb7b00---rezijegugofadex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6k4ticib9gsvs1488bbgvb31k/vosemame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c05a68315e6f7d8ad181afc84f86ac56/diroben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe9bf2da03---85134274490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2srfcau10qmd9aq00eq4cugn59/96649925717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f1f93597543d7da5821eff2f7f1283a/rowatumafuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/labefuzozinoganitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/ketesewutilezofunenoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847105cc361---77239804652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d86872ac0a---25019972687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8f0c34346---24854348801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89772e07a70471bdb8592f333445c98d/30829236448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pd3sotv2au93ltnh9v766uk7hp/92138144690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heibldr.hu/FCKfeltoltott/file/vudevisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FF 5688 bytes
SHA-256: 9125aa31529d1a2dc041b2dbd18a55d97d10fe448cfb61ca9aca7ecaec6a7dbc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f57c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57C 10980 bytes
SHA-256: efa9cc0fe9b2b5fa30a7105c91b2f81c4008a381dcfce1bf7b2847a19a578d0a