Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31e6574333a58cdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:08:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5d4a6d9d26727329c4c05692a7a9ba28 SHA-1: 8cbdae3a71f6fe5b5c5b4643183d4e7ba796c92a SHA-256: 31e6574333a58cdff23426b2504eab9e14a88d36ee7fdaf30b47266b51f4eed2
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1553.005 Security Software Installation

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of a security bypass instruction, urging the user to disable antivirus, strongly suggests a malicious intent to facilitate further compromise. The document also contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/vilakisetazo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d39b40567044f9c74f20a883238d365/28115525379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/nekozemudexozemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakerfamreunion.com/clients/1/13/13be4b03bdabdd3a133c3ee64ed6201b/File/degixujenolokovubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/namubibalaruwanupoxina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609341ad78987---35567344220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/51084672132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1042e0c5805114f0ff1457581cee4807/dixomulokosuserokumivoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8bb8b13ef---32038254578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanphatinst.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/11113370905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878cb85a033---30168176547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e5f495537---17873583011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heider.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b02e2bb0fc049226def6b0e43e465aa8/kusuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/83028649534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9d1ab64a57---55187950942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a165q36sosl3fgoceeq71brvt7/wamokuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb59fd1252---womosilovozorukege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/razedajivonawime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/85197203448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210618201428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/123857761160959d020fdcc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/502fe6d51c7ae897d2c378fca5d2bda4/xumivutakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+drift+games+on+pcPDF 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_off0000e62b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE62B 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 39a7f76385a0abf13f77a1d5391bf27d737c4a89ed5018b0a95d9093659b83ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1F 17708 bytes
SHA-256: f1ed0bb1e695830877ea18b58cb41d65bde468bf58abbc13a1bd1f185e977570
font_02_sfnt_off00012d79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1