Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31cf3f172d948561…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-06-22 19:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: a2d27bf76bf6c98a98f7306b87c99904 SHA-1: 12e37a982d16859b197537d941bcd5e58eb61f82 SHA-256: 31cf3f172d948561317dcfe838e450beef53385b852c24e163087d942c8976ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF that contains a link farm pointing to compromised websites, likely to trick users into downloading malicious content under the guise of a game. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with numerous unknown reputation URLs, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/393357d47b7a93e14bd0878c22a75ebf/40311062469.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc46f1ebbe---83528001354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/wiwojonovofek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f475f8465f5b412276cd07355a7d26d4/jewexasiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/fizimawusotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0b181ee2b---47304875507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608791f525d01---talanixelakimidenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/81335406146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cca0a46d62f8c58f7cc1c01668eb839d/28740657958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e15e53af3e11d971085983ce392462a1/67077222448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/pusavunoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldcv6dbfh5pcshkh24huopk7mc/12417632768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c73a3aab53---85653460692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f590adm4km6ma5ne3l577d7m75/11088354240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/73774592917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+x+and+y+game+download+for+android+mobilePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEE 5516 bytes
SHA-256: e21aae7a870e3bc6974d43dba663f56aea20f434f8eb2ba0c7524e3e84c26445
font_01_sfnt_off000100be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BE 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 4e0274bc502b2ea3896c17ef5ec821456346707a24af1216e4fe74e523d001fc