Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 532c101089a8730c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:31:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d355d7a028b03ad928d212c3b90112d1 SHA-1: aa37fc7e8d9d461ff73b424d1171dedf988bcf55 SHA-256: 532c101089a8730c2f7b3fb0ae6753e11741fd17cffdacdfb50ff38c1050fe16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware distribution, leveraging the "link farm" technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/11373601255.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fae1e37dbf---naxilavaliwizaxodevuveno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf005aa0c1f---39120171442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e6970085c643ff7aaf3b791a2615dca/50037964852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/46556458695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0060d59d8e---zikuwizodari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfa34721b8---xugazevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3d40ef582---92239086177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2dbc42d6ed---vetovananuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b423e12cc36---79244888457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/29907884259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/zokuzarepupogiwegijujezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savalis.ru/userfiles/file/xogosasujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f114518629---lelukenipawaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/buzavezosiwuzesupuwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aad8a0bbd7---28777131975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e9c93a5be---tubunotebodirisowalawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2fcb31e86---vafuvediwimujatosedokega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c02f22916a18a5ad5523050ff411911a/firemarepededisolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6847abe3430dfc8ffb767d0421c7db93/kexakisemojilanuzewova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/85899431936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2j5s7sqqqg0c3drhi7v7p7cvtf/sazomamizufiguwepanepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c38789c13---2095897560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/91696707292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30baa38138fed6aecb2abb93ff04706b/74052950728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=personal+protective+equipment+in+food+industry+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_off0000edbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBE 11208 bytes
SHA-256: cb5201fa377d1ba1fe97893619e23355cf57adac2f1dcc4fa385c7d6cd4c799c
font_01_sfnt_off000107d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE7 16996 bytes
SHA-256: 81aa1eec51fede817eaa4f88eabe608b717ecf705c0b5398a5d5dc9f233e7ebc