Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31acde246faeb56d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:08:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 182e1a578a1cc02a72642c9093af461f SHA-1: 3c34604306bf4525eb084975d0ad4b210c80a473 SHA-256: 31acde246faeb56de29338fd36f6f5ccee07e5155d30be7b5577f9be01e8e0f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=m+squared+to+hectares
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f98db4179---18207915912.pdf
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/mipegemidifimo.pdf
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dagise.pdf
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80dc0a8e2d---fewogamageziminazenalo.pdf
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/bedogodo.pdf
    • http://korytnica.net/data/files/jozufebolawebalobedebe.pdf
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5ba5b651c080ab105cbb6db4df0d5df/numitasozamatemiruza.pdf
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3ig03lvmn7d75lp898o7psavf/17497315591.pdf
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qk0a0m4u6jrte8iolp3fstn4b8/45089379640.pdf
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/xozovasodotipawujox.pdf
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/81818862448.pdf
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1af76ecd49f4ba4a10b8d7ad12bfba3/27919879028.pdf
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/rawox.pdf
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/80088571202.pdf
    • https://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/32323938446.pdf
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb061ac62b580d23477de4f3082a61c8/zotegorevosa.pdf
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/luribiduvaderuv.pdf
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddc1d6ccd5---80857867004.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce6da95cd1---33243355472.pdf
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/35861063832.pdf
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/detomagatemiwet.pdf
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98c0adf802---84261194183.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b336ccafb42179168b97a6a3aeea4e79/25621547737.pdf
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8clj3jhiej80ef8eitd190k293/buwirigizaxum.pdf
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/84585060824.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e09e.bin
4f57da1474c56d631518da09add94a24f28e375c0c2ae8a34baf8c3f2642eb8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE09E 17952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef8.bin
0d0d97f7aa80d60dcc12f2c9dbfaa6a3174511ff218749dafb38b5fe1942b38f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF8 10464 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000126b4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126B4 16792 bytes