Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31c1223d6d03a43e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-17 12:04:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: b36381c5a56eba3ba8ad09a53c7f5388 SHA-1: 7bd457f9256b071b4e4240c8325d8fe885e53078 SHA-256: 31c1223d6d03a43e01dcf8c8f858081f53817b145728db867042b6ee527a64ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs, such as http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077849c5afab---71241246869.pdf, are likely used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a738a2f3a45019ea5e311e0627cee3/87791548377.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/21774530759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1463494aafd43446fcb72eca5fc2ce64/xonotexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719e5d0057f---riduwovukimenazubuzawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/vigifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd63b84e13f---muxupexovibosaputojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cde03dee040---wupizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/1081549130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/79614510947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077849c5afab---71241246869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/munosegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c2199847e---bubamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativetechno.in/userfiles/file/kumiboviwoganobebuwelugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a441978548533da2bdc95b7e320b355e/56661195017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77055701882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5af1955bed---48647238150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd888ed1d3---65455068230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/tinerukifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c481c6ece89---bebuwuxavaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/100258211160d9dd1da3959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e831bbbd95f010a5cfdfb4d23c57f58/6503005323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojugikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethelhanberryaaa.com/clients/2/24/2465ef4bb9bb1b7382310ae17d7cafeb/File/sonadedunuvesub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=whoop+strap+disconnectedPDF 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_off0000ed76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001058d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058D 10556 bytes
SHA-256: a685958fcd1b8cfe6c30cdf43cceb13e9f4b41e2c66e48e62be4cb6ac14f1947
font_02_sfnt_off00011da0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA0 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 3f8bd0824f8c674616e3e770f7cbfbfba831b2437b9fb68dbde117ddcca6d86c