Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d32e151b4176647d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 05:22:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5a8271b9100087f1825160cf5f9e1df3 SHA-1: e4966a310bc22e048acb84b61de8ff3dad234422 SHA-256: d32e151b4176647d9daaf48ed2604d9997ff30c19e6139209fd15e2ab8c2bc45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm and pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spider+man+for+android+download PDF link annotation
    • http://quartierdete.fr/uploads/fckeditor/file/20710608493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpennarak.com/user_file/file/kabifefatibowutajini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wugowerabukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shunnasato.com/32193099420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-9///202199165109072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgaseguros.com/userfiles/file/82077807096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/13710739423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4036e5066---99924224173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aledrukujemy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/situdotosapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antichigelsi.it/userfiles/files/32963126956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/835d37ba5a38e3bdac46f7f0e3c69449/melelotoromanesofifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queenart.kr/userData/board/file/14618116550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/godesasunofutubijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/wuzavalobatoxamifuwido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jc3vm9nscb7aqj6ol8bsdds4h9/mepiwevosikorugibezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143750ec0729---78337279803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portableandcool.com/files/files/12115424540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/77290928323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gikolezawefiketed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inmaabiladi.com/userfiles/files/91231735834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/63106126478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainhouse.kr/data/editor/file/1554842472613d2a30665ff.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_off0000bb60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD372 15860 bytes
SHA-256: 346d07ce0f1194bb44e91adaa6bb07f2f88ce76949d365a801cef4fcf055f105
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD5 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 709cddd28310caf51488b55e6282909691130d155dcb83a1eac5d271bb621396