Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9732432dddf11707…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-06-17 13:05:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 90378c728e595424078a3e28a0cef80d SHA-1: 59005374670e7f2989f1aa8c2796a1ce9551c689 SHA-256: 9732432dddf1170708fa370636e3cc51b1e1fca5f28c126499ae6941f9387b23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable domains, likely to facilitate phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=boboiboy+the+movie+english+dub+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e899b959b581638c763a896a3b125fd2/33904681381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/pamigofasanutuwijovamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f2c8ce8ad---wesulodivuzevolivatinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078595743580---kugedotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0552d947c152f9b7b1c51b6056f9ec88/nesivibosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b11a96f8cc062c6189cee13f5c81814/lodawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f3ae9a47c---vewokezopesofomavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ugn34nhlaomg9s45aoccf99ggl/67742399715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e864993544a69327c748627778138bde/57776317806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/57757616960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0aafd497cba0669993edfc19a4ab490/bafejogefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089efa160066---motanawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f31012882---34662578249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/toredironuvigak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ecaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAA 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 118f7b4e5ee2f24c9ae43e665d79f5423b91002888eb2161a10c206009f23edc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF9F 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 3a94460f5ce8e8f62506c2a51ffafe0bd4fa823cd6b685cc5ce142cc7ecfd0f1