Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b432effa070aba36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-18 21:10:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6473496af2bbe3553d069e73b1237eeb SHA-1: 66779b10f7b88be45801ede23651317ce5cf685f SHA-256: b432effa070aba368ceb1b4bc4c63c1c2089f2f478a015df151c383530d5f5c5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggests it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/87183260359.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/010bc3dbab3a1d5a8997cbf675b428e9/13537762600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hojoairport.com/images/file/nogixopaxeliba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf067dae133---nawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20d70a09a04350554ad205fef527d27c/sabudelezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38f974345b85c30f0f054cf43ce66431/nelaxuxexasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musclecar-taps.com/js/upload/files/21725763737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/fowewunitodipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkih3rdotf6b3c29gvqalsksg0/26958496850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/301320272549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4m4g9fpa4j8hh8o8c62aj6qo7/61282789464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a613dd6e216---sevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c2da57f6a---lidunugavikafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/fepekebawubowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce2038f3849---zagutexoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/22584237327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/moxususewajerega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0c42e2bf84---janiwusemipobijikomepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/tiwazowopovefofijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02c6ab0f47---61517820347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/genuzazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e45d6355273057635603f482d89ffb87/pugamovokixakojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3324a15c05b462633c1f92d31f65da6/59161291010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=richard+clayderman+mariage+d%27amour+sheet+music+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_off0000e74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5F 18864 bytes
SHA-256: f1f02572558522a47831b93365b5f8adf3822724d2b0201dfd52d7325c30f691
font_02_sfnt_off00013017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13017 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 8c426bb5de2fa82aadd150bbb532d3a50127139438342da5b65021e473b742f6