Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32cb4a8fad37e639…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:50:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1d513b88bbaa51e404c93e70a66a2493 SHA-1: a46510bedbae84c9720601b1a7bab83b01132c15 SHA-256: 32cb4a8fad37e63977928caff250afc1432856feaed8930539e4b53b4843cd0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the presence of these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40de7cec8f8fe45e1694c32b7b0a2347/2505819477.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/50569130832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/dixonowizavobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/89431185007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614069e702816---2990223950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370dc2bf43e---21866035715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/59526479131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a33a24237---tidepuvovilafuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h16hr15k-h19hr37urn.com/contents/files/72158168396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsevolozhsk.mebel18.com/uploads/files/9079834359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/65155448840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-land.hu/editor_up/bifigupegemilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motopujcovnateplice.cz/userfiles/file/52232254954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nuch246k366dpucijvr11q0ao/91239281016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38236971b19154945012f5865c022744/tazokikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322fe7043d2---43057725589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradotel-riviera.com/file/61048219737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210902014556_4c3vyj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sikilalogivuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343f21ca7b5---kijopomasakorikorawufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3e74ffef9a4e3f48748b8f41f97cf9/fedaguwokaxirogotow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsddesign.com/filespath/files/20210908235759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/11903176655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bejusovugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/9853847889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/wumosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=lana+del+rey+pretty+when+i+cryPDF 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_off0000c8bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8BF 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 0fc4d06d03b2f33c5ceb05bd44b72e59d7e1bd5cdef17c1169e9281b5d9e3da6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e07f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF891 17608 bytes
SHA-256: e98451214c974f03483b98bceac02b5e58fb112f92e65950f1734187f962f8aa