Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 331df99e28932fea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

172.8 KB Created: 2021-07-24 05:08:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 24fe629bc648f63a292031d1b4e057e6 SHA-1: b10749de012cb6a96f1472631d9c62fdb16747ff SHA-256: 331df99e28932feab8bfd56828a4f83132daa9e81f2e10f034b48d2146c3cb62
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as a malicious phishing trojan by ClamAV. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a "download button" lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 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://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cc61aa98f---89785201005.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607589080b313---24118212387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/rigatiworizodekevuvodadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/semorogizesosipusiboliba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/todata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899e963b0bd---11398408535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9be529ee24e2c9f74697b9ba51bb6270/depasatoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd55cde5a4---84465965782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/89417160395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cef2ea081---vuwafenadofejureda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c819a8c0e---zemufisanadolowazozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/jimugewobefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b674285502a---fexaguwuninugodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/xilesitasafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/98994230116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00na04gd1kfu0dscddkcmc9egg/gubufibezodineriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82fc1ee50e3dad424a82d387768b321b/silovapanazosegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ea298c72b---82781708005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/moxojabata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1886837ac27b361c7686560129eadccb/66159460827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b817a65f064---maretuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac18ab2b122---50241757384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=speakout+intermediate+unit+test+answer+keyPDF 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_off00023fbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23FBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000257d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x257D0 19664 bytes
SHA-256: b08d27592e7fd53591b9f1e36727e0954e69e62436dacf30a9b186e8137a5efd
font_02_sfnt_off00028ae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28AE0 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 092ff23601026aeb4ad38436a846e90d97d0bbe62cbe424ff448fcc9c2760795