Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4532e38dd01c6433…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-21 19:47:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 102361fbcb71b713a45388216c57e343 SHA-1: 0ce6b7c39913e89f62319d44438a75a6e554fb9f SHA-256: 4532e38dd01c6433f55b641d3f094df735b0a645a0dc09330e09797f5e73548d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other potentially malicious domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to conceal its malicious intent rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85mt4158878tob3rg7242e0lnf/35344856142.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/65670759411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cdd7e41d4---89194464196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0297546001624931400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/37884583266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04f8q51glr0kv50vgpsfeumeek/91471429853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/zuxefigubibunutigojudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/11440178346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75686a9f0e---labizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofulltravel.com/userfiles/files/95623126046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwallacelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/morowatezoxopape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bea2a9863e1---bopifipujusovivikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advicetao.eu/pictures/file/7772708523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f5db71b48---22470638815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29779862b8---vikidusituxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ed9d735f9dbdb6e8861e3522062607/bukowadagonojefixekumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ecfae1da7---gikanilenunutasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfd95bc64894f3d67083c30e20931fcc/3007732151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098407964591---54372842569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6ac6c361e---75242259915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/39233906561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210617_AF9973218C5238BD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eg47duqpab2pn9g96gkctgkf2a/xajesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/ginurejejinodabizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec523f45002---temizinovomeronavine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=after+next+friday+streamingPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e01c28b97afa2109f6042e1a178718b/danubijefe.pdfIn 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://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_off0000ff38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001174f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1174F 10728 bytes
SHA-256: a12b4294c224ed1ed7ca58cb35673df41a094c818c540676aeefaa424e688310
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC7 17844 bytes
SHA-256: bf7f0e16d6d125d57cb8aa00658dd3d437e8616f8df986b123fa37054f5b3d0b