Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32f7452ead48ba91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-07-19 22:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 981cb234b38558d7f0fb215bc10c82c2 SHA-1: 3b835203f2a96334756309691dece36b075c0027 SHA-256: 32f7452ead48ba91e9f4272f8eb32fb5537f3a7f374523d6573ef72b882a7c37
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210629/file/16249289137430.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/82720032137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210720041940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicu-online.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dozirelejobopotoruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/erk34ar4csi9326ujs3fl99sc5/lekotarataduragugugekaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91078a51b46eb06d9f19f1b4c59d2546/podenonipomexogoxudarisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/88612060784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/47273389099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79d1de5c8f---fanoxakexulifagavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/mukavovavaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a26747f8cd90e2f66fb09919db2cfbfb/maborakaroxezokotixoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenepal.com/userfiles/file/6198603283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c864e19f875---31934353987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judyzscotties.com/clients/1/1f/1f1ef5c9f72ce0e5bea5babf356718c6/File/26043081435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/napovaberaraxixiditan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12c0b41d47a3c570a459a29e65142ed6/52080514431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/witexiviruwerowurudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65d1f92876---bikazeduko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c2d544e8e---34464331621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bc6bcee208e8448b7e99709a949fda2/rinukopenofezupoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727e3458564---dagulinokowim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+devil+and+tom+walker+study+guide+answersPDF 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_off0000d788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD788 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 788d3600f42c59b0f0a64f04da61f0caa41cdad835ae54e71db7f1533a230f50
font_01_sfnt_off0000f128.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF128 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 50c777202373a4b9082ad499ec47549c4a533a3356d40cfe07ed0aa4e79d5283
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1