Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32d4b27ddb5ea8b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-08-15 10:18:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7b8a94df7a1904a7e4f4075d73c88335 SHA-1: 235c65d8b103ad7df5a4c503f9f3b0b75c4f84a8 SHA-256: 32d4b27ddb5ea8b80d3673ca5ac3a17848c260fd1971ec596c886c48884007d5
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 as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly supports this attack pattern.

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 http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d1d2d08f5d6bd1ba398107783aa3581/50096990339.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/40363675647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/divuvevibujuvobefejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f70696abcf---11641232305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a015e2e03---40169163715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/75034902611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f72219221d68b1276d12e7ae26ce819/13940988970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungqibiotech.com/upfiles/editor/files/fawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c8f2b26e---befisurelutajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/75830263555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/sonopebutepefemomegirunol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de0672cf80---14914802446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922a567a123---69090705055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/3284982012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e35e0499d---sutilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://progin.swiss/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/07/202107042347434461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/puzareboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/20048983902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/kogixumivabejibanadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210712092723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/63984801768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownbag.vn/upload/files/98604358216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4565509804ae49cfdb42fa33e4178c4d/97643793442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=formato+matrimonio+registro+civil+cdmxPDF 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_off0000d9ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9EE 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 523f646b5f76e8d2ea37f25149262f0e969a19ce5a20e158654c87cdeae21e09
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C5 17424 bytes
SHA-256: bfa4307ef575e8bf6af63b8143f3497a137f69a24b9bf7db558bc4e001d948c3
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1