Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e32fb20d28a72dde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 02:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9ecd927cbf3186514591eb0b86071687 SHA-1: 132ab20931603700d01a9ec498dbc8b3818f1112 SHA-256: e32fb20d28a72dde208895c5d29f83f98411082e8f9971fe399fd303528dca76
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a lure to download potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210903_115156.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--2o2b17g32e8xisqq.com/userData/board/file/60093207606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhtreo.com/images/ckeditor/files/61362115507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/8631811154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mademedodufosulusubanib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/84394763567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/62090422603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/milejini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021090822033387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grouptm2.com/contents/files/tezenetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/maxuzewuzuzoxono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radtel-sport.pl/userfiles/file/76322626268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/varag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranhdaquydep.vn/upload/files/mivowalodexusadojigupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613908cbda749---5549138635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/3726095005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sd-admin.fazendapenaazul.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/zitewexojima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/6134651330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superazs.ru/images/news/file/31951869416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2fefbadb2c9b3e399a18941c7495b10/magajobamoxepapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45067a32f2f3cbf90f7d06ba1dd60f27/91106328122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xatrbio.com/userfiles/file/nuvodowemeximubuxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/6730517843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63460274754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33931710668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=god+of+war+2+in+ppssppPDF 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_off0000d3cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE2 10460 bytes
SHA-256: e8c9c0ecf13aecaa1db7dc904f0b59161d1401dae1dace438856f58b44d526ed
font_02_sfnt_off000103d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D8 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 124232712d8dc46cee8031f26e461079ba0c33172293397ef81bfabfb5886632