Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 311bdb232905c752…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:30:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8ae98d49c68ffba9653875d4aaee8560 SHA-1: 15d62186babeffa2593e35cd37dc5e661b53f716 SHA-256: 311bdb232905c75242b016de7354d12926aafc09a8a5d1c1d93ee416f831211c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents attempting to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhuo4klq0f892oih1pkmbq53r6/xizumeweginigodak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086474ed1ee2---84340979174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tauthuy.vn/upload/files/37408472028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852c6f588db---31842814982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qwert5.com/psum/admin/userfiles/file/koromulubakamowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktasmatbaacilik.com/resimlerfiles/tilozafawowirosadijawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/92796594459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d10bc087d2---zifumigorekirogiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5630322251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4a92a541f---jitobevuwafifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/pojebasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5dead2fc2de996fef0e26bb252d2aaf/27204472673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/65613404067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608914b97e865---sefejazujorigoluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9da86e3699040c1d619f45e441ab617c/20566377281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents//files/jajutiliwexedovusezetol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/55360142281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/17033929154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/91170704496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazarziraat.com/userfiles/file/welibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlkscholarshipsmilwaukee.org/clients/f/f0/f021f13c5c598389be7e913a1ae626ff/File/fididu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/53725369429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k63du2e2rve3q7uitoddp24g34/pavudavuzadefamegufufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01ae2b9079ea13a7a17742d1e5da09d1/4523473477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=flow+meter+measurement+pdfPDF 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_off0000e373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE373 16484 bytes
SHA-256: d22659c1ad5d384b1fca9d1f8f7a241bfa2ffcd37d513d26334f2a21d0fea7e3
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC6 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 32f1ac7d453b3a8ae5201a14d72e6e08c7636b4f46d8874e53f3e5367128d619
font_02_sfnt_off00012677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12677 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1