Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32d526039d79b25a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-08-22 03:30:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ebe737b39fef150589e1f8b2c41e074f SHA-1: 72851cbb6702ba8329b41735230fbb01ee4302d5 SHA-256: 32d526039d79b25aeb55979b8297019401a92ec62bb613346f2ecaefb3808b83
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supported by heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDF files suggests an attempt to redirect users to further malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 5

  • 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://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suminumap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://osmed.cz/app/webroot/files/files/22713468832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/34613321632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/5259536982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c26fba475aed71988892aa7440f1a9d/dagulisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/46498427889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/39973706998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherishedmomentphotos.com/clients/8/84/84fe84b553acfcd191e166b7401b6f02/File/54620915259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/ruworipeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fee1a41684973163bf3d63de3514865/31204097888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukonlinedirect.com/userfiles/files/45013529806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753769a023d---golodiruxebikowilajeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0be5c6500d9646917a9ef0ecd47bb432/4696106731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84f26dfedf46db560ba2f22596e37eb4/48463966377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/73087167460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/jerulojuraduxevoxeduxixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mn6or6au3rb9uoc1iau2qmt43/zutalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/regifuwumebiloradolum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a5f9760949cd80c04a08fa449a2b645/basibezonademepov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/61009633157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbd28a1f7b4---31152056974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c10caa1c7c8b74adc4aa4bbea6c65d/nitijokeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysidehigh65.com/clients/d/d0/d00d1ad1640c45b888f5e58ac216a5d1/File/nujigaluterumoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deccanquest.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/83164261039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/48052575784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=does+t+mobile+hotspot+work+internationallyPDF 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_off0000f939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF939 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 1abf175f74a48c3786cfad97a3694976fa964043732902f5c6ce75a93b8ed275
font_01_sfnt_off0001123c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123C 17216 bytes
SHA-256: dbc9af931a2943ceffead1a2ddac8d5f78be651b90c86910b1f6c68599fc4ddc
font_02_sfnt_off00013f7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1