Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f32a0a087b3d31b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:51:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d909c6a4722d52e0b45b29567ce2557c SHA-1: 7561b9f0fefec9f4f823aed6bb225f5db2f3160d SHA-256: f32a0a087b3d31b2753a6647891b40d449328c5575ce71b1f40c07ff7f11356d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URI heuristics and the compromised CMS upload link farm rule strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703e38366d6---48245560710.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/7221456943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096927880c6f---11122882400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schs1968.com/clients/861610/File/zesuwolaropelotipan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/16892136739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed7861cb7fb58b9c25da6e48a9f0a6e/59027876501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b86e0e9171---56121190655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/30778055638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891cbb2ba2e---3800846290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch-center.ru/uploads/files/35669450500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa08af81a---punigoxodagogabanilepoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e0f257c85---19254229910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babe544efb1---87541083253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073085c3a14e---14650634523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/junerimixamoduzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad7358703dcdd7fbb89de4be62f3d77a/70134231715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/vojiwafuminekaxixikoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c304b187a---kokadaxadipijabazipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/8218184115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtudongbinhduong.com/upload/files/46059733550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d6553e24f---52376098331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/64801375801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a20cd2cb9553bc68ccce3a958ff4f27d/59699914988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=willy+wonka+and+the+chocolate+factory+fizzy+lifting+drinksPDF 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_off0000edca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDCA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E1 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 364427324ebc5541d98004fd1bc16e32138824c6db3faf073127dfcf25a2b225
font_02_sfnt_off00011f90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F90 18068 bytes
SHA-256: 2391d5f9218fe619e30549c55dc4283bd67a73bd850b42865b2db0c53a325695