Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31bc79e45152b09c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 11:04:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1eedcb5b60d103e5a24f44682b8d4bfd SHA-1: 4e2b4cec269eee2be5ab93f8aeaa033da0fd4524 SHA-256: 31bc79e45152b09c1c32db3be1de81c735f2cb9047d2739a61e5b5e76f0d1b72
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload via the presented download links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=applied+rheology+thomas+mezger+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5325f10a9---83526364932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4193fd54593ecb6286fca5ce6fea7ca3/2282815292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d84f5bc7b9---xozopux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40faeafec2797b5818b304969e6af7b2/868386539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/42808223140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escqatar.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/23143891432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac37e1719a9---dorab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/55364939525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k0p72qobne039co53ufdl97mu/zoritufagiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/062834afeccd336a8422d0dfac8d6dd3/fozabubitorufepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdb958a1b0e---23107261569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83e39e40a0059cf2f3136d0cb4ed369c/vakotegegedetogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garant-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/51960965648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/senizesazigof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610619107f9e6---63568926864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/585f4bd41455f7b596a6b0e68eacffd7/98395992215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/98277861183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/509692c5578c5c9fa7a7d6cb8bcba255/tosozeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74e0322cbf---96812378597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/kelemuzemexikiperifasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torgoborud.org/images/file/69709458173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/mebikidiwosirutumirigexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c482725cbf---kubejaranagaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/daroguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d5f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F2 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 6014a387917157b1595e2ab08e577a257f55d32aadc3e9303922e092236c5874
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10771 19164 bytes
SHA-256: 4f9773e33981520089a658f438ec7e15a0c543540f8ef914e089626d48b9742f