Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 319c284a9cfa27c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:14:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 32c4bfe5820238188ba96420a26a800c SHA-1: 9558ec24f76ab9f9bec609e070bed1eef06e71f3 SHA-256: 319c284a9cfa27c2bcab08711f5a150228a2e2f17dfa37f12651415e7df373e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user through a seemingly legitimate link to a secondary malicious resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/51788617215.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/pawatexonifasagibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.com/php/uploads/file/19812493273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d349051480408a0cf2efa411bd57a8c/zukedebaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/7598104485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e96d20fa1---bubipini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/30454078529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/mujudodogudabixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-rivetti.it/userfiles/files/68495682307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/sapowumopomoruxizip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/265bea0e5c966614bbdfa4a0d2c8152a/3188769967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/50609271224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/rotunejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/wanawipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1lf1e33vkjlhp714e6mejqbuk/gaxafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad66d373f01---70943705247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsis.com/upload/ckfinder/files/52907991898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95563633571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/xuferimupobixupetuzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/on5m2avcos0j9g8c9lh9gmpiru/mumajitesumokamoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jujinalunoxoxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610302df924ea---tetaterejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/zegatapokilelobizimebizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2lb6hlogb6ursc3g4fnfv6tv2/wokonosudijoxixexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/naforupekojajipukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=core+10+questionnaire+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_off0000bb9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3AD 15824 bytes
SHA-256: 35043198c46dca6b6d99618ea05344a755ff7c2e5f094c3957f55aa8887e5c77
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC39 10896 bytes
SHA-256: fe1f0343614a4f94e8c8c72c725cf59546f80c4b42407a286e4fdb9c6d08378a