Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 531776d47ef6a5bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-10-07 06:34:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 81db9af1bd2f9a4b1aaaf00c61c5f951 SHA-1: 9d3b26952501ad7d7d521b121b15612fe31f5524 SHA-256: 531776d47ef6a5bd82180aac63d2f2db7da23fe3eeb6f6dba7eb789751ffd74f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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 http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/5185695189.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087ceb92352861769eaedd802cfb5f06/lexarujobilow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nb-magnet.com/upload/files/bavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/ruvatuwerofitugobogapufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climtech.com/files/files/76436574489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614854854236a---vagemare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/54357686998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_2DBB75C34B3FF3E2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///wugosefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/borewunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciela13.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/lomadojimixodepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhsonhoa.com/webroot/img/files/poselus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fuchingrading.com/upload/file/wunawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/67352763651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/67288370867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paroles-vives.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66497556523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klaipeda.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/97597539900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437b1a2757c---garokimawimekesela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/pexagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://justsayhi365.com/uploads/file/bopesesefujijeginajute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/tijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunridgecorp.com/uploads/files/202109271226208407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=question+tags+for+class+10PDF 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_off000102f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B08 22228 bytes
SHA-256: d2bad7e3e648889082f26c04462ab75dd274ee53fd357ac7f8d2487dc8e46f4c
font_02_sfnt_off000154c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154C1 10844 bytes
SHA-256: ec535293b411125aa55408283033a84aefcdc636293c6ccd0c47cd01403300c9