Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e031a7e2081d31b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-10 20:43:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 053c2c9453b888aacf209e72506f0e4c SHA-1: 6db1415e13b4c8cb48dbb71fc1cff94559ffc75a SHA-256: 0e031a7e2081d31bc9c35961154bf48e63aeaf50d419a828e573e5a4977609c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable domains. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+clases+de+oraciones+para+4+primaria PDF link annotation
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/fademipipujibesusowexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esa2usf34009vreck3rfjtgfog/61554086060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5dudba97ov4j40o60ssc1k5m5/dapetupajuxiguwegelitun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/ligilevavulomipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magrubber.com/images_upload/files/bofetuxodamutuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/padinafok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/guwiradejaluzuwazosomisoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e1180e16b---47456446622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff0fda99f4101db9478f05cda4c953bd/80876507427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eda409866ba---riluvulezulubuluganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948b5a79c03---13496455975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096adc289dbf---sagojotapima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/supuzemel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04d6b3a41cdf4e860a3dbdfe2e2c896e/gegajofupopudafexaxikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609304680d561---35475290883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5b768e1f4---81725478025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/jigafegolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/30626220161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/gokinefuzijalaburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2079e438d4e12bbf70b3397e0bc22ef4/98051844439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d338c90f1---mabutixexedolafen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfb97b7198---71451692132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/74588034921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/56558370828.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_off0000f08d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001089f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1089F 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 137b7b703c5f025bcbd0a1cefc6f07018cd01b2b959299748e41fe5b1a23669f
font_02_sfnt_off00013738.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13738 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 9dfb52e59d1dc64dec231b17693d0d19e4c11ceb2a5a799dddb92f830636bd5c