Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 031e47e5faa134a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:55:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f6a457ea90213dbef640d99480baade1 SHA-1: 8bf429977aeb8c529cfddd266d25d9d4939427c2 SHA-256: 031e47e5faa134a2e15d1f9eef9c53a0ff598266cbff49a87df17256ba644024
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely used to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially leverage SEO for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+the+exp+share+in+pokemon+black PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6a165a8ab0e76c3e51ef517621010b5/nibixifixadaliwadiwani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b44a4545a---88736275159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/122c6c387e48ff288287d353c8f6dec4/mezoserevimomato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqs07dgj8pg40g18fqqjp6qgb1/tusodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/tebusoweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/33182254997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e36ea0e2953106dac6476f45c7df177/tugani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10041c01a1d360072e22acc7acf6da5d/ximumunuwalufuwezobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/77014459923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarasonic.com/upload/file/91523112321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608633c461900---toxepojiditavatugiradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf227a75f6d---69638371119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b232a8ce996---9454614480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/jubaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77fbb302dce5f34b1b6619be3108a2fb/87677770712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20551665fe---75086336471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdnplutrfcc9m27gj6o6lc948j/xikuzevonanidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yorapp.it/file/begavumademolefeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d15416739cc84b3a445f040fbbb64da4/77553488661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationforexcellence.com/clients/66491/File/wetususokixanuninag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///petogulalenevatafitorebe.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE79 17676 bytes
SHA-256: 8d3905f247abbb12fc1fd5daa955eb701da6546d1738253b7c7667dd33c231a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE5 11232 bytes
SHA-256: a8f936982e9926e5aeb2a1cd874d77bb45f785fc3edfe96dad39be00af3276ca
font_02_sfnt_off000116dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116DC 2500 bytes
SHA-256: 1701ee2093fc7fef16b434f8bc49dd2f249e62e74e282f582c3692e502e2f2a1
font_03_sfnt_off000121da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1