Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31f32ee2ed57aff4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-12 13:59:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b1480eae1ad3dae3b3c83f30e0846912 SHA-1: 20031cc21f9a1b83df99e4b42f9e3c4dfd0afbd2 SHA-256: 31f32ee2ed57aff42b7bf17b552f719bd5d724b45f9f69f96c4b191bbd41b4fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially malicious domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dachshund+yorkie+mix+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946336b7331---nidolezazefakof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdale66ersreunion.com/clients/c/c6/c679c52642bc64dd8629b98fb95ccc77/File/setabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abaf1591715---23217320138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a28c18984---4598972801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/doruwalubodomafovenijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609768652dba1---vurifeboku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077eac501958---18516466654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a82411d3c0b78b3dfd7e1c409daf683/merunupubifukutilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6dbc1e5ac0---figaxizotepumasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/jafivudiwutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/kitepifimisuviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869be735736---14725066534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/bunisimezefogomif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/dazamezenozuxugazuliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/32553982832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4pkugelt40dr7ae6hkptp79fhp/buloxerabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44ac9e0614---6913574362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011b7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B7D 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 980473866bac75b978dcfe390d664ade91b3bf6fc4a3b5da4928cb7a90d44497
font_01_sfnt_off00012d4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D4D 11068 bytes
SHA-256: eedb7b496147154d1208d01868125b85f7c54c5fe11bd9cadb4ed789d6f56811
font_02_sfnt_off000152ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152EF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378