Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 312c6c0f180e3c59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.8 KB Created: 2021-08-29 03:10:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e0250a100d9b9b12d6ef4da9271b6abd SHA-1: 2bd9106dde59e81fcdc12541f175cdfe651dee1d SHA-256: 312c6c0f180e3c59b150d3c9cb3d3ed9395da44586a5d504b544df619221f6b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous extracted URLs suggest a pattern of redirecting users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://cis.ncu.edu.tw/document/files/93263112274.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://atallmed.com/userfiles/files/30013918919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773b3db3c7e---runoxosimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/50539289282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acad569f44f---wumamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/26766956920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/nalinuvejabube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6859d84a54570861da3402237f75e6b3/10792143140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d150701122---76639252322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vresponse.net/userfiles/file/85382059586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de5ef1af131---94881322028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuoitre.bacgiang.gov.vn/lib/ckfinder/files/44158186049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/patijinuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078feffa5909---tekivogaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4557fada37408769033ea3beee82f7bc/wifavumeguvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608faace6f0f2---11803319783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushrutproctology.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23264554429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsungwarehouse.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/bajonifoxiwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/je1lgkki743rglav3ce5pfnkd2/jupesaduzixivabewagovawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/48569716953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/26747443132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/25341652990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/21012828932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gites-les-bardots.com/userfiles/file/vamilonefikopasufaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarska-vyroba.cz/UserFiles/File/pazilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=lessee+meaning+in+marathiPDF 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_off00014431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14431 10344 bytes
SHA-256: f07c3fd8c1d6b122c153be0f8b2e2381525b2a850f4d1c930620641bd331f64b
font_01_sfnt_off00015b4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B4D 20768 bytes
SHA-256: d5c2aea14cb85c9ce1a1a744d408760761c764be6e5f83db5895f5ca4c4edc78
font_02_sfnt_off000190e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x190E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1