Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc32b36515b9dbba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:51:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 47b68c97fe6c5f9455aff19fa443a2e6 SHA-1: d433a565d966da148af8efb5c6cdfa22c2c2f38f SHA-256: cc32b36515b9dbba8c4dcc90a6e778357fd67a54cf7d26c213888e0787ba2be5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/11101468773.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11b84dc850---91148965969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5psskanqnig5f23rf8aa850gs5/zabazeterusigixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8602611700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/lewijatotonagirosolexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--mgbaf4adbs1bd2i.net/upload/ckfinder/files/vetinomeguwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606df89531d2e---tedudigidafolonubapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-xian-coat.com/uploads/files/202108241336151694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/kizadozifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/xefuxunananozedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7e2438318---tezasefaxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/zobebusijodufezip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a92317c57---soritaranojomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/17896315729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p53sstv5p2c4a6a1l68tmh43g5/wusewugabutezuxonolinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/54928488137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/64163703116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/lujiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brickzoo.it/file/ligimuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/jipadimotupelanupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/zawometafepewogovizajixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090020587a2c---zukojomomosobalur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appfacile.it/file/tenuxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.borzabadi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vivataguvuxivati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/45928127328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6ad6r4404g4llsiqqunnjsf5o/buluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c812f5a73d---vuguvebikixuwalanewinize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=solving+system+of+equations+by+substitution+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000d1e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F8 17776 bytes
SHA-256: 5f775e99a83d57fe9b3dc7747cc1d1b0b58e4f01588c8f09ac5a8dfb0de51d35
font_02_sfnt_off000117fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FB 11480 bytes
SHA-256: 31aa2dc78d0c287ca4753d022341d4e7fd56bd5bcad334faee6f6fbe384a6778

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