Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d432b525cb45f313…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:06:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a62101693f052a4610b3ff7a52a3b5c6 SHA-1: b28e06fad208d270720d7c501110a84bf6015f30 SHA-256: d432b525cb45f3131170cf4049f3d8c0736a1b719090197d8b7726d26d47a1e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised or disposable domains, likely to facilitate the download of a secondary payload. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/41751117079.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611943188ce1b---fofagezixeguzifoxemowunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents//files/wibike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suaups.net/userfiles/file/82094936279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1b46385dd---75452462929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/63219112643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a076a17001---59471199874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leciv.fr/uploads/FCK_files/file/28860271484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/99923709521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ab9729160---jumijokebedivuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/pijovimikazinepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfl1kj53p077i1hbofd9nj654j/dedawijumosedipavimajuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d826355133---filopurigazazevarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46f840ec79---nulavawopawolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee29043372f---rugoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/civ82j8ts4s5ujfsqofjvkhekd/62292896556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8b335e0410---wokawerubabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8003b92778---nizemebarorigifojizawukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nktrading.qa/file/files/81585832204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/4313979510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/43175211603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/vivokigoxutaxazovidorevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60bef80ba62ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121954bb8634---todaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=song+of+myself+poem+pdfPDF 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_off0000d5c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD7 17580 bytes
SHA-256: efa5c28da3579d16970b68285e55777da4d39d15fac61d4f4581e033098797eb
font_02_sfnt_off00011b85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B85 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 1001cf8594d377324ba1557de9991c459833a14100a9102966b23a528aadbc31