Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 319f1b81ae14430b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 17:11:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e4181ffed7e20f9f9b937def6183470f SHA-1: e0de7d79a69c5a175dff1713c0ad336dcced1332 SHA-256: 319f1b81ae14430be72d32f667c575a1667058efcf6f13a6c0040a6521134c66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a Google feedproxy URL with a 'pay with square' UTM parameter indicates a potential phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a5af2a385---65098397151.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/zosikafopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/94676356960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/72481985131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f5cd1357cc6459bff71f750644f86c/80330634814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139fa816923f---jatowixakajanezava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truckforceone.eu/upload/editor/file/pebuponevifugumuloned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98516713037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duongthuy.net/userfiles/file/pejazedunepurorefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/sujoseparoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vurexisebelewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sayarbobinaj.com/file/ditavivuwezifujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozhelalikram.de/resimler/files/55412144930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/lupexiguxibipexubovojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.aels.edu/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/52919956795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aba80e7f0620197aae0d4ac088291d99/86820223520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210906154721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pay+with+square+androidPDF 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_off0000ecfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFC 18188 bytes
SHA-256: ad6eb713124b4d6ec29563dd48a88fe61f6368a6f72530d2d7e7320fa3881edb
font_01_sfnt_off00011cc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC5 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 33e53048afc69a22c5d1360f00c642951f5368f7c3181d0cfbef980ee3373f67
font_02_sfnt_off00013556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13556 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1