Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b32f952099d8441c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:54:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2d07125a4b01853ef6130a56356e9fb5 SHA-1: ef4613eeb421b4e54c8c3e58b508357cb8d7320a SHA-256: b32f952099d8441c5536f9cafe70876ff24066ddc78e513d22afe4b93f4d40fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of external links are consistent with techniques used to deliver malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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=discussion+on+youth+volume+1+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/84657378275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccd900ee89---solufogizoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhtoangalaxyhotel.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/27697466687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/86357231807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e865bd92f5---sivajedajivinemagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79inegm1ol32mdvv4n9o2dpe5h/guzajobinaxalixuxovamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/986oas8dmbt4pl3j5631ndn8vj/478267466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-moto.cz/data/dokumenty/54388709702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/ximaxowuwubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/45100347170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832c7864535---88834366427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bab81a0b62---89172893558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094174ae5afc---xasuluvuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/92461024953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torgoborud.org/images/file/57801313761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/vovibedotopem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysidehighschoolclassof59.com/clients/867562/File/14974437069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mitelemegenamuxerutoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents//files/62476017110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cb87dd21a---83209991999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b43c548a18---52337604025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/555ab8f85243b094dc4ce5a3d32bbf2e/34713993367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079358b06cde---32762656815.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_off0000d89d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD89D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AF 18060 bytes
SHA-256: 33763bdd7c1d82d39496f3f4d6b3170a0407b5130662bbe719890a0179e88185
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF2 10956 bytes
SHA-256: c50e334ab31cc091c5589ae25f3de48aeb1e07f5e38114d0482af4439b66910e