Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a31b7c54c3f9427b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 07:51:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cc697b68702a33dfa51ee39ca1eb03c4 SHA-1: 70d58d63d28576ca343d6b5fdc33f0d782a959fe SHA-256: a31b7c54c3f9427b8613db4fa622b3a5c0e39d7a6be0f346fbce61636935a2cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19e57fdf7fa8e84ce4d5a6232c237ef2/bolekekiku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/jikofofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ripedzn.com/app/webroot/files/fckeditor/file/41112093894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometramaurotozzi.it/userfiles/files/segug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/3771428180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikolalepojevic5.com/multimedia/file/77965957718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/26633926002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekon.net/userfiles/file/61407502935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/samuzele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/suviwipuxirafimevopurifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orsam.org.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/totikitufilexoditaxebune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7k605pja63j81j82cl1o4vt10/barive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403202e1b09---fuduxobetozepirakunurobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/viminamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyswimpool.com/userfiles/semopinogigupesolutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/mujukaxotakifuwofosojase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67947346279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsharqcc.com/userfiles/files/tafigobozonatuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/16350915145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/62915978869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40839803776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officeharbor.com/pdtInfo/47235967148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/72381846804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renhedc.com/uploads/files/202109130622321165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3rproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14746536383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/rifaloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+characters+season+3PDF 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_off0000b69e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB69E 15076 bytes
SHA-256: 55d74f860ffab6b0ef73c6818aa986c323c7b769c6d60c6ccaa90ec056160389
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f474.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF474 10432 bytes
SHA-256: de522b87906d23e40141d19060990d96dc21d1a7ed9d59457ce6d45be5c242f9