Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c032e0482b7a7c5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-26 06:20:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4914fc409a6e4086e46636526c864665 SHA-1: 0adb53d370c6504598798ef96b537595ec3db474 SHA-256: c032e0482b7a7c5f3532c969f7c348f18cb43ba19fc4a00469c1e7dd247ea296
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a focus on directing users to external, potentially harmful, web resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867a1b706ff---52243325405.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://50wj66.com/clients/a/af/af9d65f11c1965a5434adcd4cd578f00/File/polegevoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/2021522346426622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c74350a88531cef36902daf162d666/vosizapilodima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d24d2fd51---21704512264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfec41d925---26368874008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a120331293a401451bc356fb9f442ac7/11042747311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb910bc2730---kituwajibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/sudevipalabigilaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68cd8f2003---23908004891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/35226967024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/1227651618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109e5e912d60---jekuxepepabajegiloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/89525066266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89885144974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/83767073353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11936188780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/87971232673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/basovivaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/942a54fbee44f624cac3ae7762c6a611/norajugabixavupugivaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=kale+and+weight+lossPDF 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_off0000df63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF63 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 394cba014bee3aa1cd99d2af9382216baf8a5193891a330b2a075f6255f74c09
font_01_sfnt_off0000f707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF707 17008 bytes
SHA-256: b9b8346f52780dad98ef25716bdb9f4425164df04215d2544a4b5b9514201b2c
font_02_sfnt_off0001238c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1