Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 432088c086055a1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-08-18 15:50:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: f6b0fce726ab73b8227671addeab88d6 SHA-1: 2deb0530c104028a751e074a2146365ba7bfed79 SHA-256: 432088c086055a1af25e74da12e36182fd6ba1c46218eb1425f16e632f375b5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. This suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign aimed at directing users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667a8f0a0580ee836e7855bc64867384/bezurojofipopafakuxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e18e496bc0039a6415b144d417f8f27/buzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/86559590107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b07d4ab15b---gulosenejawotefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalshield-uae.com/userfiles/files/xonenapopoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24944377778d5af2f58d186f7e8b3a02/84189783537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27005367654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/bekosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/dagegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0c4f69484---gasobulubimifarumugexanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/27552784771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holycrossyouthministryasp.org/clients/f/fa/fa15eac34f6f8ef5a8ada011ffef1578/File/54279514435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/vozikepipilanas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b2dab703446c6a176b2da75502aa72b/rababarusevesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acefce89f7---1771134598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/mufazakigutujelenujirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/vovonekudogotipabuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ca2b7c19db0156cb48920fca10ae997/48353529016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/25733921030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/xevivugevifujoduzibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/45050338062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a27d58de2---39230749629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/71738259832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c8292f30f5093ccbce473409498a349/jinepikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a42cc457843c83e13bccb01b3283f9bb/42375742999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onsijsselstein.nl/userfiles/files/3222529672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=qcm+physique-chimie+1%C3%A8re+s+pdfPDF 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_off0000dbf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF1 18156 bytes
SHA-256: 377334edcc75142ab043a3673aeebe1095d7d32bf1c8e3ba26e56f206ab148e9
font_01_sfnt_off000109b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CF 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 46624cb04b67cbb95e4d426efcf5b12297e339333e926b4eaad2756d70e3345d