Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d32a7d077b140829…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:49:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 384bc75879d6b31a71523344f8fda834 SHA-1: 00df4dd6df4b3bbc00648c356a4c2d3c8e39b526 SHA-256: d32a7d077b140829661b24f052af3856240eb17bb87b50600b45b7dd759faedf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37230017197.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/86947338946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdomtu90rgovjvipk4jlupu9b4/2668430804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7niiglm37ongcnu71kghpof47/48296423038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0f793d9feeeb22246af2c90bdd6a66e/sowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/kulezatujupusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/roxonin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vr-spagna-20.effievirtual.com/galeria/files/59395542946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/42017627874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/84025411900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49102467015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///timepaxederujufujelinapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611596119f646---gixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a32e4fa415f9aa2a24b7df8bf44327e/fiwogosivijiduvuzidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pekojizezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83886513790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92sj04g30q1rq52iqd1u46bool/retom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/befixupisexutakeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d54db6324---37763528132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5ea123b10---segoruvogurikaxunime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47f38b1da6---bakafuzokutelezeguwokotat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ef934d693---mobegasuxuridiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e72a4dea9b---54953429614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076338cec7c4---2012747105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stemcellhairclinic.com/files/files/5712456475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/xapuxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=spdf+chemistry+lessonPDF 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_off0000e972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE972 10912 bytes
SHA-256: c9f976816d0e6d4a0412437cdf5d5847c80723d391bbfff78a8173569b7cbbba
font_01_sfnt_off00010282.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10282 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 064be95d0076e260780e9d7e0793fa7ba7a882a6837bd491d78cc47f40754614
font_02_sfnt_off00013094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13094 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1