Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c31617b9339995a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-06-10 10:04:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2e8162addebc2443e26e8cb2ce73bbb8 SHA-1: d49b5f5596b1d7dcb805ce794b07cfcc4187c811 SHA-256: 3c31617b9339995aa3c5f1b03ebab0ff12cc703e9e2b876e6b61b5132d5aa4a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+vidmate+app+download+install+new+version PDF link annotation
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a528f1ec04---rinefixamivikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae01670f00d---mifisixividunika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210505103424784930916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/78741053419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bd9035693---24760565930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d3537c328---65500507967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909a5fd4446---ponakezavabukogowepelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/49538662641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c027fc39c3---70682533704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ac7823814---dolanoxokojovemewukajara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26c48a0567---jisonebabolutatotan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/wikozesug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/puzogiwokizabaxejuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5da4f807677a050fa225187a6a7b38c/pewupivukavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091fb6fc06b2---tumilidejoburotijogapelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609843047eb62---purijusawagigub.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_off0000e48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48C 5000 bytes
SHA-256: 49f1a050a32cab171902fe4955ea1fcd2cccdfd8d8ce38b556e28a7e38cb7562
font_01_sfnt_off0000f57c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57C 11644 bytes
SHA-256: c17972e199a2ecd12d86fdb2b1ad88393d00bc636049e34ae00567a151cdeee2
font_02_sfnt_off00011c81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C81 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f