Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d31ed6da8a2d02c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:16:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 39fe337ed99c77ef68f3f8327d09cefa SHA-1: e3eee8937ae6634ef2265eb8190c7f01ebc5f1ea SHA-256: 2d31ed6da8a2d02c727289e5328e74f56a3363f442689270fb2f011906f45ac0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing content but likely serving as a container for these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://yesilkoyluleriz.biz/resimler/files/tevakeguji.pdf
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b28042126---mutumofemibexameze.pdf
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd68285c6e4---wupugunejarexerovofok.pdf
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3aab95651---6720474316.pdf
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/wagater.pdf
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/faziboxo.pdf
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce0d3d89bc0fc74294a3e687b2400824/majavedovuzudamozip.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ol4de0kgfi4p33nlhq58u5g4j4/godeja.pdf
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/56217347988.pdf
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/segefomasomawemelov.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e5d1eecc3b7f41579bea51af6dfa3d5/vemiweruwil.pdf
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jilike.pdf
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/busimamexojosusugupav.pdf
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/32127561116.pdf
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/xuzijojejukubegoxugal.pdf
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90tel77r8mjgr0uvf5ofmpg5ns/bewosagofinibekek.pdf
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839f6a4f3be---selidegiwuw.pdf
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/21109573030.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30m2ieo8hse0ari6ptgf72v690/18915441082.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c79cb9j0alh1iv6auv2ukdpl2/wumejepidilalaj.pdf
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdaa754713---gosak.pdf
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/74215393919.pdf
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/26660744059.pdf
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/pidegiwaf.pdf
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/xofisakuda.pdf
    • http://gfb.it/upload/fck/file/kiguzobenivapit.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=power+generation+operation+and+control+3rd+edition
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011176.bin
d6d0d17077e38fd43a7c5caf0945b6131a23794348ee24115eef06e92c739c52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11176 17740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013fd3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000157ea.bin
4b56c9e4677bb679332a788c23ad01d25e776330515e3e11183fe987e499fe30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157EA 10780 bytes