Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c32bf4bbd38826a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:00:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5f3a60a21cb12ea46c24ec1f6cdb736c SHA-1: 93fa70f45758f40fbe839f6a14d6cadfc390f9c4 SHA-256: c32bf4bbd38826a367c5e85b8003aba481f461f42d3f89c15b07ec7166bc8a8c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate these redirects or obfuscate the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=photosynthesis+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/60975229381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af0c0a1da4d---60581622586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89478048397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/zuxoketokupotajetaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gro-felix.si/uploads/mabazukuniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076259508e2e---775748023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/30135385827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b35f42941---26404727912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123c8d395fbc---fozozimonurosisuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f87ba3d527d5faabef6abf399f6e3977/72488539902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnshoppingbag.com/upfiles/file/62543129166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/80893328716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/7365845269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608902e10aca4---87469689519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/fixebivetemodegefajifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/kevukedoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/pimagekibezexajekukegitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612163fa9f24a---lowekuladupuluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/2672939006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webdulich.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57208537431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b803c513290---44574387142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3bc3d00ac8f8f3fa5993f902aaf0918/79510006880.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_off0000dd36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD36 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 8cbded92741f7d10a7364c236579d6ed94921b3058f470dab68784f344fd427d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD3 17776 bytes
SHA-256: 48fd1a11d133d8ecfdf2723e018f209907979411a564b15f700c5912b0f94c11

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