Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32f4cadb0d068588…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-05-27 20:34:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d4fa493b48426604c3b57a16a026bf14 SHA-1: e415a30afa64dd1096ae6dad5581abcd19260c53 SHA-256: 32f4cadb0d068588eb9cce4a5ca76c7c734dc2c7ea4e1f0624d91e652d3c233f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download' lure and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with known phishing and malware delivery techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=video+copilot+element+3d+license+file+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f73adace7557edf1bb4ef64549a983ae/tuvazabosakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3e1a28c32---xuzizira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2960k1ggbtkmd71vkc16ptidm3/jugidalexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbe6031afb---47038600716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b21e691d3---36185010012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a8fa4509cdf0cbfeddc5fd470632609/nekakojufosotariditusisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607048745e739---zekidozoxefedidoruxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c7f11c49e---94831360790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/34332612075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0d9531f36d72cb2a9558c0580a6e10b/62616006551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989d3a00b109e47436860a7145f6e627/55402606840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a8ea376d003---30594493983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a0039b817b82d81f0f1a87b37651468/zefikefafetelibaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d84a6be52---23901854115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8f1a42639---88080532674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/5670140511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE189 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 7dd67a92225ea9d8456b924171c3ceb06b88c72fa8859748f8d3eb2351ea9c28
font_01_sfnt_off0000f44b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF44B 10572 bytes
SHA-256: dc8c446a790408b04d95076f7637831b2fc33b00dbb35e6cbebf57db31e05000