Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31f57e543edd332c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:08:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b69160ca032ded922a812f878999aa8f SHA-1: 960514b0827663b85322197488a7e5abdcba60db SHA-256: 31f57e543edd332c609502d8df9266c890920565bc3bedf3941e20e2ab8253ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noteg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c586984bcb8---nulitofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/67609247614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/52242973099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/000eaece66eee9e548d49f77211c09a4/zikeroweke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a016b18ef7---filibakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72f46b113462a370f4ec1b8098bbaf1f/15545355103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092605a11db1---xusavixesasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24bb1d929992d6095d4929d8e35234af/58757303050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lueckerreunion2020.com/clients/e/eb/eba09433058400eda594a485f9004317/File/bulefopobatoduroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab78524abe---41725916753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tcbmfrt45upt92hu05ql2ak9a0/2607668296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://614move.com/clients/4890/File/71154593655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb0d5997d8---64112315829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7784a0e3862b2d67a8befc5bce23a3e1/68438094567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29f813e899---fixebirogegujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882a1ab2776---mozixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b26240c4d87f7b6674daa028aeae00d/34099910454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/157d15bd9ba5e0bd95c1a62d4d2f5cd8/36682458043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba66f25b3de---36268934371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdeeabebec---buzigaxiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=which+is+better+roblox+or+minecraftPDF 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_off0000f70f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF70F 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 102c9c8c3fd3413b23a5dbe8b8c692fe6474eba905e55387c3c69bb50a1f3dae
font_01_sfnt_off00010fe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE8 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 2cb532aad7341de7dcd980f37f08085674022126542f8a4ac0073b9710a39a1c
font_02_sfnt_off00013d27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1