Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be32b4a57d60791a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-08-30 05:30:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 38b50fdcd6d6d98968df0580d1a6642a SHA-1: b6fb34078676458ac49c15305fcba5e1d58871f3 SHA-256: be32b4a57d60791aefc5cf59dfb3cc8e09223ee85a0ba3b73c0e2a7751839c70
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including the use of IP address literals and links to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or redirection attack, likely intended to lure users to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8927ebf4c6ba3170757d3d89691d2a41/43108558701.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sbufficio.it/file/40469477462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/xetaredofujijukizenidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa3c54ded306a63279bd3f4b32f0e8e8/getimerofasunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklinehs1964.com/clients/6/6a/6a3559cec3eb17f551da2d864c8c85ab/File/83446697463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/jibolirezevuzabexewotike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunsin.net/userfiles/file/52254137807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/senigeligitefofatumarixuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/lidijirilopofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/gumafekebeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd9a52aad9---galotasinipox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17806177519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52aada8038---45393086624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/73324661927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/28444752479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/titixikagiravowixuk.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ca51739fcfaf129e244975a0f8c811e/sotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldcpc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71273394475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/jizefigimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhngfckcsel2c6oh6tkj84rm7h/babarififajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geo-decouverte.com/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puvadedovelul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pengyou-english.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210723_0F851D371ED415FB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pq9876fftuua9807gvbht68oq4/duvofowemapuxuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8004acbc4ab6d2d9cb1c5c6dc32bf16c/93260247155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springbook.no/files/gojowodekixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+13+british+colonies+blank+mapPDF 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_off0000d8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E3 11060 bytes
SHA-256: f1130773623ebf9fccb32d203aab906d368c2143f814810a7b7d66b70f3d9688
font_02_sfnt_off00010a57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A57 16956 bytes
SHA-256: d22a79dfb8bb06f11c3f63b504237fc0fc4e609a5dc5b8e9cf38f16abeb10e8d