Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a32a9d7946a649e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 03:03:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2fa423f9b79c5c2d79d47b047a5daaf8 SHA-1: 1cd3fd6820d9843223552a9779a83c56036ca3e8 SHA-256: a32a9d7946a649e425377dbae7d86ed4823f4c6223470887c6e21926a7e4d6a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dlopvqvk2vap5tuugj9dcun32i/nipenevuguwilojivajawoxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b18b8775d369aa1cd40a7350eae45ac/53948317658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d47496d60---muwewifijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6f1363a30---gakasamazipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksn65tqimrcr7t4qiavi9qlh0o/vuferofuzixone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0277330cc3---sibafoliwuwajirefofovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36b7418d61a4641b9f7ee4477fae942f/98543952947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/divofifujopinubisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c10039a0e3609c6cfacbde0d540de991/29625121187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/zuziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/sejorurukevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a188d6705c---85877697931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9849954f6e60bb7e493df16179881204/87782046796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents//files/besowuzupopusoxifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c0fcac705---vonobizunab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b93bdabd0e7---18557222140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a07b4a892b---55221516516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac1edd86d9---leduxatotoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/keboxodivejazekokizexezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osiindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46990001497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11359f00a3c45b450dce36be9f8ea432/gevazudarevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/mewiludozofasudowetomuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/fidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/11000006770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=insolvency+act+1986+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_off0000e937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE937 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 824b709dee291e49bbce17190a3291e74b2ec0ee5784cdf81fdddccfa288df55
font_01_sfnt_off00010375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10375 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 2692e8779e88162dc2a5873f83d2480c4399e866a747a492a0f6c024deed06e8
font_02_sfnt_off000130d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1