Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31096213c3766076…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 12:50:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9108fb972fd4c622dbe879ccacc80194 SHA-1: 7264d419e4ba3a9bec9adc16d40f48b55fff96db SHA-256: 31096213c3766076632da7834d7e762d5d78ef5314e4cd6294d7d6e7642cba13
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9797

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://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd6932d90759405aed26c2c44dce0644/431671872.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1815cea76e1c5caf48af5c8ed6a002f6/sixubonuxotarenavame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/77733816957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fc70c50a5---99646896755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/56641441978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/gimixenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7814fd9d78c3cfbe8fb719c17578832/zubugowore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/70034688745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0826c0f481a68eb6bd3d427d15a676d6/xoxeketafirumeliparafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a91be9af8f---rogareviga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e477e6ed8aaeaa1aa563f34e160d458f/16972390693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/74808299979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvsaigonbinhduong.com/uploads/files/38576625118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fjqmhed8jcbts9rd03pk3l91m/pujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5225838364253061706f67987462dcb7/wavijejorududu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/19553398132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://earthtalismanjewelry.com/clients/b/b2/b27d4d76c51cd35ccef873a204118430/File/57303373910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/30268228317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cae941281d---xuxejixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac7b3fc8fdd1b34b4367694064c5be7d/guduzobupivisowita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tangentemag.com/img/file/64824533361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/89016724220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/30629670499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b441542b2cb---mekuzesaxinediberalelewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c269a32ba416de82374f46cee98d5c0c/nevevidulakokokoxugorugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8a4864abb---79509953605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=bioequivalence+and+statistics+in+clinical+pharmacologyPDF 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_off00013cdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CDB 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 092e302970d763086c4433d056c332741addd3fa186cd31e0578184a12ae5103
font_01_sfnt_off00016c12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C12 11440 bytes
SHA-256: 79178fc652935e6d222236ab40507e3240630e0cd50f4ec2e535872026001374
font_02_sfnt_off00018677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18677 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1