Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 932426d052a7e3cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-26 08:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d3fddca7f87ec58c402d3779e7f4f0ac SHA-1: 1c84d0992477244d3641121ca8a85dfae8221ce5 SHA-256: 932426d052a7e3cb366041daef849f348454b3aa92c03df6c67eeecd18254c0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to exploiting users via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=video+marketing+services PDF link annotation
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/todemiposasemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93b5ec3136---98157219751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b0c4c9b5379e67932e269e6f4b52c88/detam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c7cbb0861---jovidabufirorutatejade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/laboxerepofire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b95a9cf7db50019af6199a31cc3ecd9/vifutetepavalutev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdfb7e8a97---radoxigexuzukiwalipigaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610661d57af8f---54342006429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/ruvamesotabido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.vn/Images_upload/files/62040564040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvoq70j2cj7o3c3p2dajjhpq6f/senerexunefamobaderiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dad269f9c7---88412697925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b32182769---norawudasalikuxogebutugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202104/file/85298895341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24849617e4e5c668519a36294fdf3ced/61012455205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ac8c806936a7c9624bdb4b77bfd4cc5/47276378647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fceea5f37be5d94f3535a71f70c0b6ff/tepulidufufilugugafiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf97c24d10f---fezevumedipanuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99d8d0cfd51b4dc4795b889b68016158/68164373575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ec82185fc5e4232d474b4cd95cc561e/49773857437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mojejojilarubixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizixamodagozipazoz.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_off0000dd7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF591 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 2452235212349b49b9764d13534b61d0fd18247d5fd3f5a0204569d523f2e358
font_02_sfnt_off00010e3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E3F 16040 bytes
SHA-256: ebbcc511077a286ab2d49feaa49003d60efda2e4037b7dbd28b42b130def4d3e