Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec32400b14b21d04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-15 06:54:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2e51d02bf3b4c4d743f1942802125a53 SHA-1: e1e416ee6f59072f99371534f90ab6e5791cf8a1 SHA-256: ec32400b14b21d044d75810851b13c02be24d73e2cd51a091837fc1fc1bca274
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links form a link farm, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/nanojulatimujex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/83252407337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/39087680410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/89982201515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ecdc323bd---87961277353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/fojadapokizole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhdrum.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210722122806_ZnVrdWJlc29qb3BpemV4ZXRlZA==.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e0a4bd1001017b584dcfccc54c6c9ad/23366673905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/lutisatixatuviwunojewezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb5f5b520c---20519511655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbeb3df972---nowabesepisavibodaxojos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d30841856f06d9e317d4d43b76dcecf2/8169037329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architetturaurbanistica.it/userfiles/files/salomevemid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf244f28e4---sejedafikunefufatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceda402eec3---safarasavanelezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb16087ad1---suvixuloporosutat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-ookuma.com/js/upload/files/fopopizigodiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/fejoxazalaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/31629679963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/81984572327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingceremoniesbybev.com/clients/72651/File/fugazudepuxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd1244fa15---vasorigiviwenonazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/nakodezifajasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=facebook+blueprint+tutorial+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_off0000ee9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9E 17500 bytes
SHA-256: a5cdfbf8862d987e639b5492f79d4a0ccbe57fd8ae6853701ecdca167541560a
font_01_sfnt_off00011c27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C27 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 5e845530be2c47e45ba777ce8d554ce2f5e4814df6c4c752a477d063bc4e8bbd
font_02_sfnt_off000134bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1