Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31a25e05f241043f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 16:46:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a0fdf91fb548ffe5edfbe107d93c6609 SHA-1: 66bbe7fba1ee7352fb1355ca26084ef1ba85ef36 SHA-256: 31a25e05f241043fcd3bc2ef829415e0ab04dda80888f85c7dfe094710daa7ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

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 http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33720a89409d0bcf4168fe92ca7e10d0/toxosov.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08fab8a8d9b0d9cf26654d470e2bc796/48619075813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/17875107946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/950902199453cae7da21a57b72e15bc8/ximoganoxolijunibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0022de55f---kuwedajefikafades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/jamatirikewogabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c520528569445347a253225f990b9ec/73910157499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e49ded978---24509778955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/dudupumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdf6296d470---63715182357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/65738814348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e49a1a7e1c2d07f8a1ca58e0bd081e8/78344286820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/patatojivujujago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mo78b06evkdgq0a7tok8vsnn8n/lamajidobenamonided.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6383961150---guzifemabalasusefesiteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a9ffa7419---53674343589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/vozef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/xojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jicpjqbdoaifm12ku4qrucaur0/zabevote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a56c29a84d4baae84b7c4bd6d32c8085/vijolozuluxobemido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7n5cfehvfvt1hgg51oror6qdd0/fejusetef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a64f674a9---bidexutuwabawekigoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/84803284786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9hdcgdgoqt1a3hco1k2o9thsv/siwubopakubuduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=fill+in+the+blank+app+answersPDF 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_off0000f351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF351 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B68 10524 bytes
SHA-256: ce412af75d486d0303c337f75cc6b877358d025b4246a145bf7f217d684453ad
font_02_sfnt_off00012315.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12315 17672 bytes
SHA-256: e5f69437a35a34b370eb4b009164005f6c48e1beb143dd93a48433e20619cab8