Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f332b19cb6355c3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.2 KB Created: 2021-09-23 12:26:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: aab0bd3f76ff5967bf2a192e6750f546 SHA-1: 7f0f33aebaa814bd3a2225258a50636e695f9fe3 SHA-256: f332b19cb6355c3fdee50801b014286c19ee80a81e3c1993a6e273a72dc99e3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://goref.ru/files/file/99106881112.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t11lsgp99sqtu8i6c5tdbs61n3/13051746144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igk-lilienthal.de/downloads/dewusomavuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210916110034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613210edc557c---pagujepinuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepeg.by/UserFiles/files/pekexexuxobijetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/bovesogugifodewezisulawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaiokla.com/uploads/files/40040248030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe427cd1d5---60323995001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/roneriwifulisikafuvubibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/kujituvurojoxibibavetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriardue.it/userfiles/files/rupimijakemume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146a89354254---25538082491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appli-veolia.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pawamajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/42077309030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssekolkata.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86265737911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78449840383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rupankar.com/fckimages/file/85356550470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchen.ru/d/files/93690313942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/pivamepajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/15410970157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/89169961889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72860070984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelletier-tp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28788554551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffeetuanvang.com/Images_upload/files/memikuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=1984+full+novelPDF 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_off000125cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125CF 10160 bytes
SHA-256: d2e5d6b2d19f409d8dbc13b381eeef6abdce2f2d3c35835c3076b323d9475f7e
font_01_sfnt_off00013cce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000154e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154E0 18048 bytes
SHA-256: f3d3a9d695bbb3a20e37f42fb81b825cdf330effdf7c627a40455cf6b3ca96bb