Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 732f4b7c3b3f2a46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 06:37:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3e9205744f3378afd8f42f1b595ce023 SHA-1: 8f343a764ea1e28a8e8dc0b1969ccdad839f378c SHA-256: 732f4b7c3b3f2a467711b5cf2a659aed604610bc5a45b81a55fd7d4e17c6e2c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=righteous+dopefiend+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/nasesapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d66uicagj0totvhie4lsbgap8m/fevimubizuvuwakalarada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/puxaxabetokotekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/pesuladalikixije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/88670038954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/97563904726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098827ce7086---43143033022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2815872acd---monubojuseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xebenagusigonapabadijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719c3cca2b7---99804989597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/pukerolifavatidekolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kf5ahq4dfo6sdfnh7g8gp3ii2p/64555991292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdgtq48ng8qv93decpu8cof24n/rozumuzebarifiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2fa8b41276---65839485881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p09oi8r1318sucgd48pdtp5ac7/fofekavugonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/wopevoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6add4ce3ac---32490338765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210531_29846A602A912242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n387su79lp3d4441b9eb32ie55/99426159473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/tekexegugiwatenugiriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9e5a4de5b---zezakosufawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0e8e315312---simokovirufolajuweludil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/36914792745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb2m25q7sfb9q4i9h54tfd3hfc/82675895613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ae2ac07864bb9af1a3184eb6c4a0ef/rozigowexubizutolejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fd9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD9E 17208 bytes
SHA-256: a1ff0dfbf2bc7b314aa53761579daa37a6f0d1711b03fcfd6cb04c6c94019c56
font_01_sfnt_off00012a75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001428c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1428C 10612 bytes
SHA-256: fda3fd158dfd6949a08ecbd262c51842f4ec7a02ed89408a95dfb63e1c59e73e