Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f31f7d85d113cb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:08:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: db3fa0481d54fe9633fe6e893ed92da4 SHA-1: ca55ef5a944415a46197dc9ca76ce57e9e860061 SHA-256: 1f31f7d85d113cb6a91e4ae49adcb51bb654e04866f2c2ee10354eeebbe98c41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=crossy+road+pac+man+ghosts PDF link annotation
    • https://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9002511491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daejonggyoyc.com/userfiles/file/20210908221540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416c5793992---siwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodavidepini.it/userfiles/files/62176162795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130cb9f3e908---82804708008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/wezofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/jigigulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turystyka.powiatlubartowski.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33827647911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/16877627981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seedomoretravel.com/files/files/fosoloromamonufadodopaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haruhonpo.com/upload/haruhonpo/files/riditanimune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0714797001630794879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onroerendgoedindex.nl/images/uploads/19449003142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146cc0313d89---76631727823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/99027029752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuryakyn.ru/userfiles/file/magoxizezojafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattledesis.com/fckeditor/file/duwebejapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/57631918448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_194519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gebawowasawuxozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/79585903863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fusemujigosujipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/23176385418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rossbeede.com/userfiles/file/99727404407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplehelppeople.net/uploads/File/votif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/dafigodegirepiwavawukipa.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_off0000d897.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD897 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A9 18896 bytes
SHA-256: ceaa538d6f1564795c63ba1e19287452eb080feae444cf3958d0520ce157e601
font_02_sfnt_off0001223a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223A 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 1c8e78f5b0350f383fcf1e61071ca4bee4816dd4cb81b0b1c91c3462326fbac0