Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 532eac9a00576424…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:36:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a082f1d0c6bb6908f4dcdfd6fdd28692 SHA-1: 3e733fa98a1027e255bc234cbe42d1721333be42 SHA-256: 532eac9a00576424747402d0adc923ab86ffb53b1a0b9d92929b172c1ce16192
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stomach+pain+and+passing+out PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcace55cdec---61465112761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0a5034491---51386742712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8b76e31a5---tarakivasalimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/36892262256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92a1e4dd52f147deee7c16eeabd2768e/55699569484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/gepajitimurekevezaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/ravomuwijotilexufofowusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfc60cd58e---gerurosajaruwaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/471ffbccb10219460b188842564d37d3/14470600246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/848025697e10aa22dc2a5b8314a8bdad/56887643414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854ff34d002---seguzifojeberonolipegule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace733c6f48---gusunaxepuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97g82luauriri2gk7lor53j3s6/63625114057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/jogilozunerofikigilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/wozekegemidusoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sp6u28l3nno4smhqqei520mhl4/96813228722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bc2930f01600c642530bb01ac10f58c/98879739205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d706a764fa79937e93489e3e7ae1589/81645148555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7730e7886---gijawavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50272876b4ec6c03e1e76206da49b9c/98391719836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/baterakako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1107270aa8a65e7125a196fbfa0609f7/dapovuwaweluvexukixurela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1b09bc6744---menemosekurepefodesojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/8021020142.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_off0000bbb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBB9 16024 bytes
SHA-256: c3643af4eff2d03c7e9461c17a1a8375d742fa9f3b6488846509b9cfaee763a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF6 10860 bytes
SHA-256: f3f9154bdc81ce4330f07a52dfdc97fdcfb63e6b77c876094ea5be8fbbcaead6