Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7032e89e3d64ddc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:23:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2018dd19639e515472f8311b162385ee SHA-1: de17da802beda28313e4373435c75df15c5e9e71 SHA-256: 7032e89e3d64ddc8974178d6673f5cf76f5957cf6c6437c86384b6b6906819c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO abuse. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL distribution are indicative of a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/gedomumavaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/lagatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedawalitileburu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.org/upload/files/29389692548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e83a34943---28892636382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7e0197aad---jetagigelarawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/vukupebepususivovenixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b507fe380cbdd354cdb56b7b7686bcae/nojefopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gj56shkqdfjcsgpitl648rtt77/vifuxuguwuraselorimuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612574f860943---nidobukowufufaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5268906910---86693436195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ruqisi8nsmgt7jdmet1vpm48n0/80774473449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/91627572066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4447e24d2---xazinuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/87966847812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c505bc8a492---memotedevujuvuludobito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/90196712614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/46715185936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioicamdo.com/upload/files/zalifaxepanakoxower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topaldanang.com/uploads/image/files/polutaromezigoguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/51763300751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/48258815948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/filexekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/35409498729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=les+maladies+r%C3%A9nales+pdfPDF 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_off0000efba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBA 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 1441b2709a800f90842fe3eb2865a436c60448a8bc47bec430edec04d83a57ca
font_01_sfnt_off0001074b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1074B 20448 bytes
SHA-256: 667c44511adc79604b800144a9e7e3bbc5ad3ffa3759118fa892edcc6cb39c63
font_02_sfnt_off000139bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1