Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31edc7d69269367b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 21:24:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2cfd229821985fcb3d8e6abb2fef5599 SHA-1: 12dd98fe28fada377fc96b2e312cf57926a0d7f4 SHA-256: 31edc7d69269367bfa12722ab6e308d228e539436645b05ab2fb5c2c23ac8c72
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phishing lures. The document body is unreadable, but the external links are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnn37pd2k7b860d4kvkecqfkt9/likidezofukoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/58138399625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d634b1115d6---pisodukezopibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ce448f9cc---72099674069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6fc22bec470bc7ee93cb1bd052183e/teduxuwukikimogiluwuvoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4111385db820b814702e0442c3d1ff77/38392324790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/90124052261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/zupatarisugarodepapunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/77467171319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9e4a56f5a---lazotizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855de1ac6fa---bidanikotuwojogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47818350109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/wigomexedolurat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/xovuzokarurupalajomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/30382828483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defi128.com/userfiles/files/17443156526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rs3st42suj0ndg52m6rcq9nfug/65561338821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dapr6d7042bnen6habk8ckig7/tozobukofob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/wivisowarodalisewenizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legouic-peinture.fr/userfiles/file/76315326769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae3aedc8dbc6b6aa2992aa9a45c19835/60736858849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afoa.org.ar/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63072416825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darienhigh69.com/clients/866565/File/xonajilumuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021062316432992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doublehappyvstheinfinitesadness.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fd3475468---27581103706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+charge+the+i11+twsPDF 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_off0000e6cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE3 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 74cf245427f07b433c8cc4462bc606a8e7e34540c70407dcb5a47ef1fe09b31f
font_02_sfnt_off000116fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116FE 17340 bytes
SHA-256: ffa59a559a25cc55cd16d75ed4c1ad9436d27d32d81595d433dc0c156f2d1232