Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 632f94c4403ba248…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:19:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 72d855f51d5e126dcee8e6d958b6f716 SHA-1: f9a6f6bf087fa7d7005b53d6ffa9376cb0aa8373 SHA-256: 632f94c4403ba248165f727f6538bc7431b6a64fa5303de075ed4051dda7fb5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the heuristic findings of a 'link farm' and 'compromised CMS upload link farm' support this attack pattern.

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 https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d288508f73---lozitedorimoju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a03456e2cb---70049258839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/rifulujigegujedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/86828370120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khanaphatgroup.com/UserFiles/file/67570552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14cf5bd407---39125108690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c2ce0634e---10466895354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711faad43e7---zobuwumomin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdf60678e1---zubipakevenupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/66876922542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/fobisepaxawiwofajudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzeyilac.com/resimler/files/71047890708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhibaosang.com/media/ftp/file/memowunotefovomoxiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa9ff878de---sitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3oj52dklva0ivrla90us3i65/16579660458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pk-kuepfer.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70383262238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608781736d668---60350203939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamducphuc.net/images/files/jotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fondationmonetoile.org/clients/0/0e/0ecfe6182781ff486fe5156d2e85c11d/File/xujijasapuzowufep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/kojesewavodipoberotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0o9uvj5mdtmig907bs9cf3fah6/65521450569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607948dc1aff3---tawonimekijonizatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6da6d534dbc5f0f0e12b30980cf8bd5/80293542860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50714d881ea9d27d459ad3648224ff70/rugopewisonununefavugope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/9412582569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=lost+my+certified+mail+receiptPDF 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_off0000efa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA7 16784 bytes
SHA-256: ec9c8d559079d73c6e15ad7cea27e9fc5eec272f980a258a743ac498d0288cdd
font_01_sfnt_off00011b64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001337b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1337B 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 88da139205d87b9f245074058a30d1c0edaa410a8b5edfe070850b7c9c71f8da