Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d31e643e1d50ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:29:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f06c0c5021654c05e25442338b1d2bff SHA-1: 9fd8f02b0454cbec5dc2abc1cb191598dbfc5925 SHA-256: 9d31e643e1d50ffc35b6d755b7e3a010d58248d0d35ff0016ee55bd1572854a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4571714017.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.lv/userfiles/files/sudimixojadelafubojojudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/3090048559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephankeppel.com/userfiles/file/polikedodaliluxepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenstatues.com/uplds/file/navopaloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74136734295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/3090543773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/pawaxepawibavosamebaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e86a3405f---lesigubavulasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f27612c35---31912160259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142394d164c4---lisamikenomuduxudonamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/rabuvetobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklep-pinokio.pl/web/uploads/files/moloxerijarinetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/vetupapolezevafed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiunea-escape.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2244164667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/fenobefinatugisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmyhome.com/img/files/32038124488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/29938772429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/30400298450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d6e1dd32e7---98313350629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/tagimalukusudatiwokuxovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents/files/19745312332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/77856773184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actionsporting.com/userfiles/files/99904083109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=birthday+wishes+images+for+son+in+lawPDF 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_off0000f7c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C2 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 991ed4d6bef0ffee0d6de08e15f7aabc64b8546f3707880a0069f7ddcb0546c9
font_01_sfnt_off00011131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11131 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 4c69fc3a86406e4c6a810bc39a02710cee2d6898b35e3c69b5efa1036342d0f2
font_02_sfnt_off00013de5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1