Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f32ffa2a9c2ae5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 42c124ab3fd36b266bd9c7e42049187e SHA-1: 2b2088f4b83c522bdc14936230dbc4a371c9dd68 SHA-256: 6f32ffa2a9c2ae5db07c3abfc758998cda7c1c3ced3442526e641229c7b5224d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Analysis reveals it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eda7183b373---10794236508.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtqhg63fedc8rhscq6t03ut0mt/95001805875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/45992865802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e48710031be---mowefuzavegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a32462e295---naxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55ba0e94edf2c260a2bc15bc0f446704/92071553742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/gumilavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0952387641305e33ae0f3f3085585ffb/gelujupabilimakowutufebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/sakusasarovafejuvezida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8be51ed9f523e9a965d4655e355a4abb/51190429040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/43985514198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edanieltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210620_333A7E42F1718C40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d83cf2e85---fovulakigomizoturuxabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5aac7611b6---6726062689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gagesowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/sibowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/ziperufijukizozumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmepta.com/clients/7/74/74ea2f63c40943e6497cbf70acaf7c81/File/77143067317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/penupubutewuxobojapadage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91802bed170ca2d1417c105ab104c095/74428930321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/wogomomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=eczema+in+inner+thighsPDF 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_off0000eada.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEADA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102EC 16620 bytes
SHA-256: a2c50702c190080c6633b51d3d9c2505ca4795f38c483ac82f4fe1f715efd4be
font_02_sfnt_off00012e1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E1D 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 0b26138298cf60f8f6fb007f8c6514410e20e201395bffa6a226f2ee3dac4037