Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b32ae8efacd2b441…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-10 16:20:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: d50bf2ab6149bed64873de35d845b03f SHA-1: 81329d0f4390d18008d71f15ac173a7118710b26 SHA-256: b32ae8efacd2b4418bf9f5c6b16497221e32514998f039c50b725a951a708453
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=last+day+on+earth+mod+update+problem PDF link annotation
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fb195a6e799899868ec820d32d744bb/22907690563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609799fd7dd21---lesuniredijenaduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/mabusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83eea2b1fc1d4cf9e933da94b228e33a/xurovatodipodavexanuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/xewadavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tvapldju8u77b03bd51krifk5/tetevupawokekulotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0315db9c3---1930077689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bc5f22938---bifudetasaxerudazitiwilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etn5dodv40228hg6e79u6r1sm3/daguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5cdce3f6d8ac05d2ca3e2f439637849/55814256583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092de96a210e---felabalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95102225272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/34514962542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/59609565335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094779539a3862e6c077bd699af7cef4/6870028883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a976c9670bb5ec3090edd26b4fdfb7d/tenivibeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae67690442---66389121694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c42cdc4f42---49633165232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF779 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 748d79ae2f05f3b0d6a627374c3a593d89c1cc1a57dcfd210aeb7e8494c3f760
font_01_sfnt_off000108fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FC 13368 bytes
SHA-256: c65dc0d44a8f3de99e4f798ee68c2340a4b1f0c7350e627d85b233b3e4630570
font_02_sfnt_off00013499.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13499 16312 bytes
SHA-256: bf8f9ece8d9d74ce2d7a98a07ee1bb8f4056faf702b3b1702118181e85f1b939
font_03_sfnt_off00014a24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A24 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176