Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d32689a4643701c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:29:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 912b69e3de4abbfac5a1eb6cfec8cd50 SHA-1: 831b271f01cd4ee3006344926b4ddc637127ddf8 SHA-256: d32689a4643701c6b29fc97390122c11e3527ad7abc2b1f6fc423817f3090753
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+holy+bible+in+english+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900597d3701---15208516767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b72b6c1be8b70bb7ad4eb52fd97efea/55477429011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slabowidzacy.smprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83136385338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/10023371122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/kusikepigawibokadebixamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///vowezigijatazewabeveteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8eb8276bea---95870964752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3b0f81426c---44330529392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed082a721da4aa0563fe84dbd30dd9c/xosevotolijumajubina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/gamimasigivokivurudiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/766124c7697e63c23d36b2ff1b853457/17617524111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/73417490081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b7tec72tl9g5avf81m0q6p59/62657160376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f919c2fb2f---tudawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/wolitetagijimozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941f326adbd---kezosilijazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/kunupikalomijederojafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e2a82c487a8d17d9d16dd0f6c3680b/wikiroduvewariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/95816829751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/46734625995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/181280788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iziusb.com/userfiles//file/34643147115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kooqgrpi1d4bap1q4hq92n48up/22035323901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/defebirepopupaxijimiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100ea61187e6---gudifelemoje.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_off0000bcf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCF6 10980 bytes
SHA-256: ee2455564c2becbcdbda66330d6fa9811621b6704187d7fbf4b7e5f401b8bf98
font_01_sfnt_off0000d606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD606 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE18 15700 bytes
SHA-256: 29e0be13369f7c19d5f0ccbe721dca8f545d7680ead11351a457e286572f7e70