Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b31c7e4d60b0ef5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-08-09 06:09:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e32bdb9d22754a33576f0e9713249a80 SHA-1: 0453e450fc89b03d25a4ef9893ecc0a2488f6027 SHA-256: 1b31c7e4d60b0ef556a92c61bbd887c5a06a93d9b6fd4cecd4d205b120be93f0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The primary goal appears to be user deception and potential payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://uci.ir/userfiles/file/28759521910.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4912c9012d---zusivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/vutugasosorit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b27a9276a---63607954893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6c54f0fd6---78367392164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0efc632aec---1240526473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bbe0fb33053925503c95dc9f86e23eb/3933814720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30086361318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/lesimageneravapuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50492362511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf785a9caa---wusenefejidivujibum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/31527471827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc366e31acf89c8e2fdfd1ca59d22434/93622215319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjd0lrat62t2891jklntfn8df1/bisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergreendentistryva.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22095272156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedcollisionrepair.com/home/cert/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xitupewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mb-classic-service.de/userfiles/file/8708159697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9db4636dadef46392dce018056f79fba/zobasiwarobemirokuvaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/mokibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkbn1ukf69046ecd07cjo2rrne/kinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiwojojigufosaxuralapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/608d58985248ac36b4000ba8ea42283c/2525724187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/files/raxobunedikopisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ac4065b10---61074624553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konferencii.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55823773643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+an+armitron+pro+sport+watchPDF 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_off0000fc2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2E 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 2e18e8eee58dc7e74ecb0c354adbcd2ce552bbf70519504393ea30aaab57a20c
font_01_sfnt_off00012b37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001434e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1434E 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 50c03085904ba1954bcda6eefa42c974cf487dbf8c4988555abc470f8c409687