Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f32d2876c72b7b53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:04:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a41b60263cf1549c5dedffaaeee963e7 SHA-1: 3d869de184f7eab0be7d2d4defb9739ad6a168fa SHA-256: f32d2876c72b7b5358b89895225a297c8357dc5e2eaa24391928f080d45f533c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be disposable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these link farms. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://radfordhsclassof1970.com/clients/878146/File/faxiru.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1f1625df48acc5a8d1c04f4a22a650e/15310384763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a80d48a47---72075794495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/842e683cf9fdb7d7bbb8acddc0c4777a/18146719676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dda1067876a---juvuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/pugaguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkmate.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210815_4328A0B0F9A6B125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/bogetenikeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/71016607474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dd1d76a06b86c8ae49ddbfca26b335d/baxovixazibarezujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/92269202513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb279b5600a---rajivifufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ebfc95292bc04e35f77b74ac119a6f1/jemezakevepidimogisepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a35b79960---figoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/giturazowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/polewimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85fee1995a5be61db2892b19a928c55a/bebixadokirozakelinogetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/mevazoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evrokomplekt.ru/userfiles/file/58988889032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92020001135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/jitixarefegitisujaredob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kolesonujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/17140054280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/saledebusanagubudinirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=management+of+nursing+services+and+education+textbook+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_off0001201e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1201E 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 5fd7ed1259f297004d9580fb4ffed00e9f617f0a3e0f64d330190e2782c7f50f
font_01_sfnt_off00013aaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AAF 18676 bytes
SHA-256: 7b06e6d7aaae7c8884600e213417612660044bade57526430c7fa649e8e06bdb
font_02_sfnt_off00016ae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1