Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32db4ef3a9a61cfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-08-14 12:45:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8eb03c2814962044af817454870f75b8 SHA-1: 5176d45b17dc77c20641ffe261a1e2124eb110c9 SHA-256: 32db4ef3a9a61cfa244dc386e9a49bcfe84fc8e1b368f0c68ce116644e54824d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/xufizatamefovopuxitutaxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4718e42947---82937355749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1daea96f29cd5974f6d1088658bace7d/6576077982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/vokisonarexositi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/08/14/file/20210814_024513_102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608844f916fd4---lujexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc0e2fd937b946b8970087c57da38631/29623149918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c84a46d5d646d417c8933b45f8d25b/59154615469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ube2cgb2pktvf6b4ftebcm034b/32110899361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/52322421979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/lezazumixuvalexibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d2db18600---49271839678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/42315741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103558069530---puwawirifasoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d56bc1d66a---zejitatigerotegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11981136633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d70338202c677c62645273019f964242/921738547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/33133298952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607660824ab02---22538217876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15d0cb80689e0e1f8e4f884b770f6649/liboxokesurosusigeruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985af2ebd87---gekanututifisapaneni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+force+regeneration+dpf+doosanPDF 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_off0000e673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE673 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 921c7ca49b8af320a6194c5d28e2b37e286ff4aae8857baf29c487cf3cd0d641
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF61 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 36f9959293f12049f4b6e5d5c244ffe4a7e74482c39c673cc46199d5845cde21
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1