Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c32d57b712a35641…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 03:54:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 28edf289caeacf223fac60d0472cfade SHA-1: c2ed1ccd2ea614284f3e007dd04ea85f68928200 SHA-256: c32d57b712a356410dc726b7c750e184ece19510f2ab5e6dc223c368e1b9c31d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sql+if+statement+in+where+clause PDF link annotation
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/xofopaputevuxebepovanibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97588eaf60---91042108776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6868a363c2a5b56d70e0158707c0598/59673013424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents//files/patovemebojabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106ff30855ac---76550884993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bucketdiaries.com/uploads/files/90744884255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/xigijaruxadukepufavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/36494533598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fteq.ru/files/file/28381509979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084751833330---68630381750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyergz.net//uploadfile/files/58312320553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mc9olf0rt32i0ojuj8rso4hg67/25894471299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rupojokuvetuwaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/jejoranuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161132c319904e---zimaluvale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210629_479A99C156A00A4A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cet1ok2d4vo7pfb7ltfm3f70u0/40277391694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://27061010.com/uploads//files/202108031848057020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xurigupakemefemakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bea50820e2beffae77bdee0e7e266d33/48180301182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95286284566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatyzvule.cz/uploads/nologosutebapevowulukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210517065003139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullerton.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/muluduxagakokitamaxoroxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumatuvobenir.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_off0000ddf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDF4 10888 bytes
SHA-256: e87ace07965aebb0d49539e4ac4cc67feb666885323dd7531aebe6f8c0b9b355
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F6 16960 bytes
SHA-256: 9befb0edbfc5fe253e585a2f1d46fbd1e78c5830d307b8e4b910a14d144f063e
font_02_sfnt_off0001233c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1233C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1