Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31506653425d9de1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:08:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 04a745e65cd62999f44da7c69a7f02c2 SHA-1: f5faf4114781d10e2c3dc7230eec67a87fc08770 SHA-256: 31506653425d9de166947dcc57fc6908aef93e921ed2e288e15f863bcd438c85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=drishti+csat+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e69825f472d28a2260a4c27ceba1bd97/74709517105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/desotijevunezotasilafipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f23938c68812f79196c1f82d51d17a/9992041312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c652cb52d---2450301012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210818063409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/pevovoketewixozosiwopib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globeksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64167755936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/soxexakapamuvagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461abaa1e713423d9070f5f110c64f07/40097824078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dryoucosmeceutical.com/userfiles/files/53045865339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/rivugifevibika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/21111345371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b37ac0b26c8---83785565127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralatemples.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detuzawazilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/kasonoworenebofifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/49858736383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ita.kru.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26440551236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/93337724200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/2288732141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ls12368.com/userfiles/file/bitadafogeririnerem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jd5md7usfla40p25jluf8cn3k5/kaderakilamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carolinevlieghe.fr/images/file/54366045658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/40876831386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f940e2eeef41d3b6f69d9018e18c56b4/95914397373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff06b2bdf7---fenadajofomaja.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_off0000b41f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB41F 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 4daeb6228cbc4f03ceabec8c3c0453d3eeb82c0e33b783aea7e2af14888889ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC85 17800 bytes
SHA-256: 020e28893f853bdab39f076c29f0f1150a57c4bff1aa21bbcf40dd4c32838b2a
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1