Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 031771e2e5467fb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2fa60bfcb9b14fd080d937a42eb2113f SHA-1: 8eb8229d853e8847a400efbf16d2725de9b65884 SHA-256: 031771e2e5467fb8d62ed0f7794d19db86393fedad28e3450bba3e01e488c6af
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and IP address literals further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/16696291490.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/9087209008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novafish.it/userfiles/files/44189483007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/fugajopukimigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/labefosukilenawixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/41223649088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608271a0c35d3---43711609842.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80fdf3f78e1930158a42d9031bbc7481/57205794377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/xufanefunizokavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084898cb3fdb---vifixedogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/vuvoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/mutenazevazaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sangolongphuong.vn/longphuong/news/files/fujajiwoteja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///kifotidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c96e4cabd60e01a3b956b11356d2cfaa/resixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6abd4d4e76---jevigerijezixav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internet-trade.eu/UserFiles/file/12750177359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jk4fv7pt2t5gu5mau7arjr08gh/najekabilopilewavesipis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents//files/zamezemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linardi.ru/files/file/nimizufasosuviredifekexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonepigments.com/userfiles/file/31579814402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90779dae75f7cbe19ecf43ccbdcca181/badeledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2680d2c1d1122ea7d12d978379b8b72/jumavijolula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=verbos+regulares+basicos+en+ingles+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_off0000d848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD848 15384 bytes
SHA-256: 4638c62cb1c93dc9331d52f782f9dc767cb0d0ccf4e574deae8b697d859a1b05
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF2 19792 bytes
SHA-256: 9143de554bb206e3538c7a4b3d17811a139251d9a500090da2408ebf5999de5d
font_02_sfnt_off00012f9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1