Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e31c43df156046a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:50:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8e953ebc830e81f02bdbb26b3363c676 SHA-1: 48a4184c594091c872bde484bdd12173661cbee1 SHA-256: 1e31c43df156046ac326789834ee6eb9447033bf4ed35b43263ce646ad50051f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware distribution. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=margo+t+granny PDF link annotation
    • http://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210911_021707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/09/08/file/kufimago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcdb530eff---99220789089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135772bbe458---58946807373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detitidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beta.nhatthiengroup.com/files/uploaded/files/9928218353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simbhaolipower.com/images/file/torigunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmk.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simunilovorukume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142cbc4a8d83---kunonubarubupegexuwizoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcm-invoice.vn/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/nopifuwokojupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque.ville.deux-montagnes.qc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12311045076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/78745664099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidiniaibreketai.lt/userfiles/file/vigitefupesarazoxeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/21523532095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/48698681773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/5532132512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghh7ra0qj0q1g4hiqau1r4dvvf/kijubexupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualityroofinnandsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kevumevazawikego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/32349415301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/2203548821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caac6c85071bb8cd7c39dbbb24fa19ce/zofezefejexoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speednewslive24.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/51210836834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biondiairsystem.it/userfiles/files/65029673169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/webofiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/34287478929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/3305364268.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_off0000c745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC745 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF5B 9952 bytes
SHA-256: e7c94f4d93469307c2846ef09f025c4abe8e8f35654de4a7ad1d93919a2e5b7d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f57e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57E 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 7dad8a6313bff9e63fb50b581a949cfb1c56ba63bc6cfde2b5f7e479c6d9f1e1