Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31273c2325f6de5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:29:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c177b215354f50ccda8a3419958dff83 SHA-1: fbee94df59a57726baa46b402bd914e709927e43 SHA-256: 31273c2325f6de5ecf1130245db750ce4dd9a5ec214d335cf95a3538d720855e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9dd3183d849ffb9acaff92cba590b5e/32058242562.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14d9c0367a3b0294c105fe86fffe3280/lejufejosuzawofumilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/10704383837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conviviodihera.it/dati/upload/file/taruvedarapagajazekiloxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7b90e56c7---sewedakakawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d619ec653---sajonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/92468147173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rememavavefoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/fagezaxozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a554936cde06b3d2eeac4fd0ad8367e0/94441791388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peeweeslearningcenter.org/clients/5/54/545fcf94abc6bccf175f3035c740e6d3/File/labejozewagulakinunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dbfkn7fdmv2j7nrmkqsuforu7/22350528032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0d6b41560---xogubizekifelebidanisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dchs80.com/clients/c/cb/cbc185099defa3274d3d4f74835fd64f/File/gawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37145247377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210815_26CFCF40D25E1ED9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728d4f7492c---81653968021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e391a258db253acd5db417ab20b6adf/lanavuval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bamenuweneno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4vaskb0f3pui2vprjluc4c7s1/77169899314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35117769952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9b4cec0cb---tivixudobinuxasemoreve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/37886147317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3a13b73dc---34997475840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/xolozabemovolabiwotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=working+principle+of+potentiometer+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_off00010435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10435 18928 bytes
SHA-256: ffcab3dbe5b08f0f03d1f2347e98a6ffc317ed4d07651b3ec2440d220f78ef5a
font_01_sfnt_off00013586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13586 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014d9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D9D 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 38d10d3c667e2c429cfc3af4595735d2142fc0f9acb51dfa2034b7207e4390f3