Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 312a3e92d6955c91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-07-30 01:44:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8d91f87edb0d72f9a71f40fc3dfba070 SHA-1: 096080b96f95b429f14877bdab08383d2f527739 SHA-256: 312a3e92d6955c91d0eb33fa6de1f6bbe3aa3e1b83614ebc9d6a10d5fd8a2ee3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the malicious destination through SEO manipulation and compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+access+memory+card+ps+vita PDF link annotation
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/20753881247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098788c282bf---3489697288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e71435cc94b356d3a770bf9f5be26613/31994329593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/bejowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/55239854896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c67ed39ced1df68dcf87ad41875599f1/76989933851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0647d51e5d---rugekaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b50ccc2e93---fefizetidazetegewepazepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/43670558458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/jijulimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44511e7644---77596905969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/51124857323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a100be081eb284ebf8f9e0ccd7adfaa3/22165949707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094102984479---rabuwapofunowinemavimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/dutewonebubanopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88c439747df04582bcc2609e8b745e34/85999553561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/76340093718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/30113057254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/74220988623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/10759221504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e971595f456c04d5fda3b8ec2fc6a45/10123151698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/peporigadivimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc54a8f38c868c96046679b0271d9a9/15838778437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f54da8c0c---9304412324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bc25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC25 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 41fbf0f920031ad75e5bf133654292ebec30f05826cd017c3181aef6f535e290
font_01_sfnt_off0000d50c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50C 16216 bytes
SHA-256: 1d90dc89d472861860516792f7666f702b68f0296de59665d94ef985a74d7589
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1