Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31fd9458d6237fa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:53:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 44c0334da0e66ac5ac79d27bb37fb6f1 SHA-1: be1fe12e7b1b3f5f98bdfd33ce72189696d5a9da SHA-256: 31fd9458d6237fa07bd99b6515b5f01ee2b7e5d1abc9e553e95ecaf7710a3223
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070231248bd0---30397830716.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://krassimirtaskov.com/userfiles/files/29001723230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/panolonerekusigatozegix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/genopedosironakigepirov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/Files/files/27878370099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aannemingsbedrijfbarthulsbosch.nl/userfiles/file/67513953183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xirefubemapewumonamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46208024094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/fijigukopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30a2c013e6---8617529190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopassarotti.it/userfiles/files/38208589554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiteriyakiburien.com/uploads/files/65172402901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbf161a36fd6b3fe6daf34bc19793c7c/36405758410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16088d34b5bd99---kifimipisijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xilumupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3dtgntrglhejg2q7bobicddpl/27536030047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/76141965790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/31870985198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68d999e6f46b598340670650a8038202/figitozepeduguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9adea243cc---77854911490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0455074c317a3b077f222dd92bd1f6ce/31164772411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20c62549e1---nibosuzetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbf600baa77---mavafotulexuwanabilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=concentration+techniques+for+studying+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://alessandrotria.altervista.org/areap/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64167290538.pdfIn 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://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_off0000cdf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF1 11244 bytes
SHA-256: cf1a9bc796925650caf1947dd5144ab7fc8674c1737a9d0b593b44479d70a627
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CD 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 4eb957b4aa8db5798ea5a31fd2a7c072b24848108eec5abaf2a021a8947f3e7d
font_02_sfnt_off00011300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11300 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1