Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 317db889b4f3f339…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:57:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 988999da5d3bd639642934dfc48fc38e SHA-1: 23d3f6ac2f340bd22767a123d42fe2536c88ba62 SHA-256: 317db889b4f3f339ca1bdc6846b8a20aa1213d49b0aee4e8854ce70ee79369fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. These links are likely used to host phishing content or further malware stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37264872484.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://conexus-study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/murora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/ditakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/36691504348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13bb05fdcbba2476a7b7b71f9bddadc0/31033722165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpstart.mobi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumarunupigoponofogovaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be0652a097f---45888673135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c44030563a---83730293905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ace498b8cff47e95b9462c4b1371534/4260120535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d38abd1781e---58371532811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfcd07ed46a398783d21aa77c2053600/86163388161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210620173229_1935838671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c8ee8cd4---99431364414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-elec.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5160963258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/gajafekodijelekuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ca0ff0e6f9b227a1c5bd96af83bf5c/34647021127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9vdtobt22hdqit8ki6tqdf8l6/tutebevakuzedotugabufuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/78844087003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79f7714008---49865271267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/komeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/bukuwopedolatizovoratagug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/vezelewipizemepobufavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cec164534e4---23950657257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32cb798473ff1f8d9e52ab9494aa58d3/61616817079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/761670975f5302a88033e4a35d702a9e/10081530627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1bb925658e---fexutoxolaxigemevowevavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/814d7d3e95084cef5bc2e1391a7af04f/togatogenute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=will+be+availablePDF 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_off0000f907.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF907 9708 bytes
SHA-256: 06345b9832afcc505c92cab7a0019d8bb2c3160e245428431e04cd0dd869f7e0
font_01_sfnt_off00010e47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12659 17932 bytes
SHA-256: 90151ddc567b1081e7267e4966c807c3898a9f79f501713f2db314b7f8ee1896