Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e32c84defccd561…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:10:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ea75bda5e4cc46164e610ee44197a195 SHA-1: bada11c9a0372c0f279106a7c1c67612d277a5c7 SHA-256: 5e32c84defccd561b37a641936418c5d28e8eb245ff6425196126e4830f1d999
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to unknown or potentially compromised domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary indicators are the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/93831718817.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/favuzipobaranubopuxizagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontsgoi.shop/uploads/files/33903655557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/fepawivasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43895bc2ea---20885301242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ae9f89af8---biretiwozekumisizoforiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nubufabumivaruxowevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/25735210990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/lekojonokumefaxadinap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffc067aba1635c6289ea8c2b27ee1a9c/21659528327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a274df77204---palesaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988a574be66---bukugixoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf81e5984b8---tuzopujosagufezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u562ltp51egpn0cenobrbn153n/60583758184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc052ad138---93858988716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a380000076a---talakabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e5b56a4b32df58174dbad6e6231733/29728631055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a2c1e21c4---46826069285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/29000057652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/621d478aa45afc543e2a62f09d60b4b2/75728385940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e2327b1726142b60263de125f8ce4c6/34009324391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+tragical+history+of+doctor+faustusPDF 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_off00013315.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13315 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014b2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B2C 10828 bytes
SHA-256: d0dbb5855a5b07e2592e4df6c78b2a6004fe32dff9b534ab26ca771e04996493
font_02_sfnt_off00016421.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16421 17160 bytes
SHA-256: ffebf72fb39847e487d5e9def6e0e8fb39b6b9c6fecec639c51ff67c91a7bc58