Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31d9690f83126ef9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-07-24 06:12:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 0719dc0fa9dc1bbd72246cb2454d0d00 SHA-1: 2b551ca8ced376459cee7d4db149ed1ed1e8d9b0 SHA-256: 31d9690f83126ef986bfe4ff8004554eaefef424f3abdc9f7701f546a59a18e1
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. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or SEO poisoning attempt. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs strongly suggest the intent is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609238353ad36---jijunubivawe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/833ef3bc70d0e411bd48e0201cdaf49c/ponokukilovavede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960b6365ac9a305e9d1d5ac1dc01aeab/fagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmcf5mdqvnifiseogpnnraa64t/jugijoralatixipeloxeweve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/larob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezenobajixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/gomuvabawibijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8a6a1bab7---gukinejujogugipej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2596fc86bd58c4211698d55ae88c60dc/mogalarerudonunepodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/benarorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/zabege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7665346fa---22640125415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca35000d646dc42e67d0e42812a23ecf/motigagebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/tuzenidalikudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/gatopeladafepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31dba547bc328fcddcd6fdf4e21e5021/gexafokalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suseefinance.com/userfiles/file/11400477273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/45118678938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11290587914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f686d96168b06709cdb44e842eeeeee/15333816980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tosekt7rj3rr24edog6ohbevv6/11389440136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebd3caf85d439e1be7a37e653554b25f/toxaravekazulotiwanokuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c12c94f4af9dd743a1bccd00d4b51a50/walaxomanikowitumevisanef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+hp+deskjet+printer+to+wifi+networkPDF 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_off0000d4bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4BD 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 11d32f1bf43503aa5c863952472f0f289d4c358cdfd3afb22568a5db7e3aae2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B5 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 0597567644b838069a5096cf6c8be572a3c13c375b5fc27bf997720c21161ac3