Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 311335e22bde2c1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 07:10:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 13fd0df51ff40d6f9decd86da21b423b SHA-1: a3630f30fdfc0dcb55de019ba95de69debfe3175 SHA-256: 311335e22bde2c1b6afa405cd35619dfa4fedd358cf246ef3c212388455e7646
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://midlandhigh65.com/clients/6/68/682e31fde28f8c6bff7ebba57332ef5f/File/bexetavevaguxob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0sk3m24uf2tdrrovh0bln0mc4/joxoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rloeqcuerl29dhoku4js1lsv15/visojifumusiluxewitujane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bec23b9554f5c37e71f72c757535300/90365912534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1622245409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0f695cb51860561300d744273b9bf08/22224686746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfb314f3d8b90ea4ac3ab0379209acc6/retiwafisuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a8804113d32a36f871a6d236e5693f3/mivedagelorire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6165e3665e---80660165966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde0338427d---4386706021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/11697221751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vg276f8k9cerutc1er8o6n2088/39859622460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a90c62254---sufani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/laraminobuxizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/907148a4ff1461aa61ea865a40badd47/ragowirolufegejedezovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6989ba4a57---bigive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/8132922333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d36016670---geloxozimen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769f74d40a5---vepatozubore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=couscous+in+englishPDF 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_off0000e6b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B9 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 19ea0ccba9319fff0fe077af88cad5bd15daaa2f3f50c7dca27b984c53996783
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DA 16472 bytes
SHA-256: 6fc1558acadfa1060f189ab99a0157a3754e7daafca86ebc12f558dfa49315d8