Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 632e5ab8ddb49ae3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:51:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 54d50216be29c408e6f5c543a8927681 SHA-1: b6a23665299509453274f6c26fb1fbb40a0dace6 SHA-256: 632e5ab8ddb49ae3e1f5a4550d5582e46b5d3d990f5a913dd9f2f6f4280ea8a6
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, combined with urgency lures, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://ridendo.cz/files/file/13257938736.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210804_105525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/wimufesusiridejoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mramus.com/fck/imagesfile/69132836657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snp-ent.com/files/fckeditor/file/1314630977612b81c9ee191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc18cd80f99---xatamejifebaxavixogeseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf010fb5ba70ae9545df8756dddb6c7e/kusujojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/35279944369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18904308426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/82222528173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/laxeraxitubafonakeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/mexorerimizaneguvamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68eca8fbe8c9097d18178e890bd202da/wapomuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://somogyplusz.hu/files/53398215328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konferencii.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojedetisexajokokapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/52813471673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climacom.eu/userfiles/files/60836440104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/wozimupozuvepaxolisuluram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/kebudozumixitasan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/jovodufeguzelirene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e007d080f31---zejejozisipusipogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/vozijonolajasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-p-n.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/78070811848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=dell+emc+me4024+storage+array+manualPDF 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_off00012822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12822 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 6ba3e72d6a7c426e150988ca94cd1bf96cfee14de5a183b558052d78a19f98d7
font_01_sfnt_off00015446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15446 11016 bytes
SHA-256: b270b055dad7a68b0ae9c9a853cb007776f46e12159a5dd5739023590f790eec
font_02_sfnt_off00016e12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1