Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 332ec1e0b9eb7516…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:24:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e317a21ba56dad9e4ef6547ed07e900d SHA-1: b31ae99c66c0a1e6d77e3a3962221ff4a4585cd8 SHA-256: 332ec1e0b9eb75165707e1a0ec046feec37278919bd603cd346b1ec5af67864a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a malicious intent to trick users into downloading files. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://oaklandscreche.ie/userfiles/files/99720268741.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/relupojutenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810aea0b2be---92431915172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/690e73d4ec245635a1695ff5d3ac215c/1734931197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210829_4E86A26FD72880CE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754d3caa0da---sasugimerumonatifiben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/potatedol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/56990759622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/kavomuzerabutededu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6960cb0542---xoroxamuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ea82d015c---piwufexegajakoketoziwuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/46935755291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/59537873622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/16965117748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34ad6d5992ee22dcf7924f6a802f8da1/gexoxixumemozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36270104949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macphersonproperties.com/clients/876251/File/31958331373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/51769923479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd531056647---zedoduxafodawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/85165590794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/depepaxeribupakoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/67411213766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/98873053736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94cacd984830024698764dabc44b3c3c/jevedesalilizupipawasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607411e41cb0a---65140372786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210707100103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=foxit+advanced+pdf+editor+crackedPDF 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_off0000e3ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3ED 18224 bytes
SHA-256: 1032ca94f5e5debfd203df9b00285f4b9c7ce53cc27dd619942629f61b8eb2f6
font_01_sfnt_off000112a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012abf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ABF 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 36f636323a66fef7c9c0fe5858716c333c350881aed25c56af1f53f6fa1e16f1