Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f32b023983df3935…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:28:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8581306fb955d638c17866c64f850fca SHA-1: 21bb7e915da810d61fc264a5fa852a6143799158 SHA-256: f32b023983df39354582aa7fed468f244ed415f478734fb46b4777667c4b5955
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ravpower+power+bank+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://gmei.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b152fc75527---20949681134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/tufoduboje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/83169612223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/kenozaxewupisamowagadoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7d1f3dc36---30807272791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/7738794576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42513424243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68ae33c358---52986047937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/dokesajigizovegekewanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/puzawutepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/setenuludedewakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/820694e6e0f16db511a34f7775b0dd6d/worunoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1emicf4uk7k311e7e1ccufhap/xanejixarikopivaleki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/86954391236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/watikegisuzurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxitrip.com/basefile/daxitripcom/files/19704313155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajsanordstrom.com/userfiles/files/kebetofikoxanalikuwigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/dinepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/25950844945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33f2138efcaaf26b24fc297b26e8056a/97866353220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbarestate.com/survey/userfiles/files/vegigukazigesatulutuk.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_off0000c293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC293 21324 bytes
SHA-256: 768819e4af755ee7b64f24d96b733a00bfbba0e1aa886a956562f96ce1985fdb
font_01_sfnt_off0000fac2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D9 10584 bytes
SHA-256: afbdf4749ba5e5d6582ad8681292bca86bd45eb246b01561c50ca8cbd4e51417