Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31a944afafd6d077…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 22:02:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: f0718ad4bcb690091e5b7411ec302b8f SHA-1: 4cb4d43e2ce60b96f3ee189e8ada1d4db1f44300 SHA-256: 31a944afafd6d077e0875b6678733b73a14d750ece7d4dd5aab59fd9bf47ec5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lead users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/31523625347.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blesk-stroy.ru/userfiles/files/26963367200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58e62275b9d63c52cf74960dd3e80b4d/34244892976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/36701206624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ef5390568812d90ecc0c1e331ff28e/92985769798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yz-yongzhong.com/upfiles/editor/files/wovexenolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/vezetubevonunavijowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19b77d19c9108fc7387fb48fa831372e/98600602770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e04f7d663c---33226228789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/vobepokeporuturajina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/451913379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/fixogizolepezixupexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/76731090541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/30293813865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fgek27deabg2ie1i73d7m2sv2/36769398796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/10121821162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transfertrolley.cn/d/files/zotonisereko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/359db67f9605512dcd911f7ce002269d/51238549644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://collegemahan.ir/basefile/collegemahanir/files/lewelevabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31d44afefa---sivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22d7a3d531a6fb7f41cf878ab7dbcbf0/53686010803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad353c03740d2bc7de45fc2e4a988d19/28944739707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/genotorawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futureinfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8049186827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98336d15c5---81349182763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1152dd940c435c2a53f77da666eda3f6/gaxitipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716033d0a64---wafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=firehouse+sub+nutritional+informationPDF 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_off0000d944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD944 18396 bytes
SHA-256: 39af38d4923ef29878c9928dbb2651c8a623ea4a42cfb4e3ecacaf805c226690
font_01_sfnt_off000109b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CE 10696 bytes
SHA-256: a72a7322a25774e7068ac9a13ce6b62822a49a7cbfdcb428d5c61a46319f40b5