Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32d50ae00d4663f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 16:19:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 266f2054fb3614d5ab94ab3bb26c4d96 SHA-1: e01faa55d8e2df98e1b3a0472ebce9e054f9e1ef SHA-256: 32d50ae00d4663f93887f49a11f94ec31d5358540c885d14f526bc98aee33f60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, with one URL specifically hosted on a compromised WordPress upload directory. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://irastuff.com/admin/ckfinder/uploads/files/96431991319.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/48155168288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucg-eg.com/userfiles/file/28880543083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393438a822f---51695625045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatoceanic.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/15650988260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romovi.net/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/denajudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuketdriveschool.com/userfiles/file/bikukuxuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23263014242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/viwikugajuvididiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/nuvofexanibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/jawivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redigonda.it/userfiles/files/zumuzokagununone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://najlepsietorty.sk/uploads/fck/file/53130232056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/6907941459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/pezariviriduxitegipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/wimomenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///74937624811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/41652672773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/59102569290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139312772637---374857200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fef16c84f92c09e27081612d634bb6a/91489401247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagodilovaspark.hu/userfiles/file/mofositugiruranevarewojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/wewuvesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willajarmar.pl/userfiles/file/xejetolubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21924082342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnologycenter.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/tivevuxobosuwotojozogof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=secret+of+millionaire+mind+book+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_off0000f215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF215 10920 bytes
SHA-256: c63e5fc472b95a1ee38d7f2d5d842b055d8cca15da69f4e99c99f0ff3155fd2e
font_01_sfnt_off00010b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B19 18960 bytes
SHA-256: a17a8f40306756344b9603ee75cff062e2ecbad89f608ad8dafb8f82db3ad7b8
font_02_sfnt_off00013cae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1