Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 532f4f3442de1d62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 20:19:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 133c57278f482c7b5bdcf667de6bfb53 SHA-1: 9f569888a0262f5597e0d056dba80c610e1fd20b SHA-256: 532f4f3442de1d628f8c23ea8cd0115b1d5b7c3fdba8c29650310e9ef5452e5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many external URIs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ifttt+apk+pro
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ka94kh3hfjso1fdl25t6q84ar/watuwexepupoliposoza.pdf
    • http://baovecongtruong.com/upload/files/49949693882.pdf
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/96431034200.pdf
    • http://sintniklaas.kinderopvangpimpeloentje.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66579895728.pdf
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/gupazari.pdf
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/jojaxisodoker.pdf
    • http://nutrizionisti.eu/public/thread/risorse/file/34051887990.pdf
    • https://buffinvestment.com/upload/ckfinder/files/4571964323.pdf
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a5037059d520571d4a63043aa14a07b/luwetujemejijuludefebuk.pdf
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613594a6800f9---19483941774.pdf
    • https://cmflower-kkc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozuw.pdf
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/9739879036141dcd04754f.pdf
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56885492505.pdf
    • http://hanyuchina.com/upload/files/7274895065.pdf
    • https://tivirtual.com/userfiles/file/5012029229.pdf
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megosojerazawatogidak.pdf
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/87658574688.pdf
    • http://rungrawin-itt.com/userfiles/files/69107032736.pdf
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sorutobevudukazujitajok.pdf
    • http://spakimthi.com/upload/files/jafajonuwabeseledave.pdf
    • https://nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24921654128.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/kakalexubesinorajen.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb46.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB46 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e358.bin
6292ec7fe36011348fabbf79fdf3bc97018b1585c16b33d54d8a3133ea6da5f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE358 18444 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011310.bin
7e0302944b75841135586f36b2dc01c44ae02f8db23c5c0d9ea92e97a1c9c96f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11310 9852 bytes