Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32bb49b2e33dbd44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-08-23 18:56:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a02ec1aefd795a7c1c3a5e7090cf1aa9 SHA-1: 078dee97da3a5e0582ca86be8422c15be7629afb SHA-256: 32bb49b2e33dbd4439051f1d9322b3c3c93a0d666cd04feb006c336a71a449d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of an attempt to host and serve further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n35ffjsf3524tdju0kdp0ljla0/mafigupamuseba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084de031b78b---jibatuxedidowovalujamuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f75c48b8e5---87261552665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775933572a2---89144524355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/bokabedupinumarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021052204222973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/xarifumumumeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150221_122121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/65973965019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/gumilulumivusetimak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863f0fca992---reravevimawovidivogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/436e6db979347d702c669edb618e1486/627915111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/63273185450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22d78ebe8606eea1611860e3dd88c3e6/xuzufexililepixalebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/39880166128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/11431634985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17ce33cc18---77357371622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161145afc097e2---39962880352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/jexigepafila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-mst.com/mst/_upload/files/vutafajetevajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irishheritagesociety.net/clients/7/7f/7f3653e4c5d791bf76f28d2bf9929747/File/namonavufikotapejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=before+you+quit+your+job+by+robert+kiyosaki+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_off0000e519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE519 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 49bc1af609dfd54b84f2f63841acfe6dbc85103ad7aebdf68073590cbc36a55d
font_01_sfnt_off0001144d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1144D 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 43224cf156495ed829415daf0b687dbf7f3de8abb6da690e5b446a02ef821340
font_02_sfnt_off00012e08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1