Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32da3935f5cfeca7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 17:46:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 32e049372ec844499bc53ae6eae62edb SHA-1: 5f037a916aaa77787cac43783f40b39221651796 SHA-256: 32da3935f5cfeca7e1c125e2ee13ae66e4bcb12d1e71174f6f551fc19c794f1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of the 'utm_term' parameter suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation tactic. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, likely due to its deceptive content and redirection capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inserting+a+tick+on+excel PDF link annotation
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e3d94aa5baddd1cbeccd3d716b6fa80/popufijogixazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/zifegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7fjl56btcrbkfk4ug42ui2bsc/nilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/88795830555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075da6a42e59---29591686741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924a2f1ddde---wekagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9jm883jb2bicksdftv521kp20/95586830636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59cf6df55e47cc927c7c40ed796eaf8b/17888382230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b650cddf5c---bopajedesuvubos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/xusurudupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e1389066e66229d7dc78176b6c266b4/zuxeponuwepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lu06lvvqd5f4d4hk1q9gff2k8a/1313368856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdf41d346d---mibinadewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b423b641ca6---79885375092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856e28660b9---797318019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6486fd80de9a884c968e5b2d901445a1/99171789482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/kagisutuxefer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854afdf3fbb---50298318308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/noekduph9kvqc5lmha6m7hlvoo/nirasumapola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j96php9opgc4kq2ged4oe8hfs3/lajunumekunisota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/37148653080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/bomexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d6587ade0---sokuwepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ed3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3B 10552 bytes
SHA-256: e95b75add3cbb7f6fbaa6627a5f2d411821debb1cb98ce719a3aec4763f6b72c
font_01_sfnt_off00010572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10572 17924 bytes
SHA-256: ecb79a798c8a6a98b8f74460e40c5af11c80f89a0147ae64614d09fd11670cf7
font_02_sfnt_off000133a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1