Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b31b34178dab46c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 22:30:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2766d4fdc3c1f54569cc3052bdaf248f SHA-1: b871b84de60605125233195c848b75971839da62 SHA-256: b31b34178dab46c44de2595fa6cada3368cbd51c0838a74921efacd10f662bcc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. Some of these URLs are hosted on CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content or distribute further payloads. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/77546237756.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://85097781.com/upload/files/41765122976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1501790dda659b9edaf987f4de15ba50/bonazumesibunajudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/30283924272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80b0c8f06887234de6100a068d061a71/raxufizivobatamuvazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oaejgb3kkuojei72l145ebsrio/majaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/97805654481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0347a5e75f---widoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/reguzigukinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd8ce4d7be---tapewiferiwexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad42bd1a14---wapekelaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4l94vca7osquo454mq1fa3a5l5/21500999223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a986974bf88---33803430075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d713eb225---bepitodib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janatalnajaf.com/basefile/janatalnajafcom/files/23987280351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608235d743bdc---kududiwuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffc9c85c81aa197243456e70e1113903/kodirogogimoxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idrg7qd6bk068b8s3nl33snbet/75252066132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff3a98769e---81339859251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/gawowuwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607564a00918a---20185684389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/39436554221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/27239703013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=my+rotten+headed+older+brotherPDF 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_off0001047e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1047E 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 1341440cc92e1efd07072369c8efca62e4319ed74e21e8a3e4f790ac04892877
font_01_sfnt_off000131e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E0 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 79d7806902223ff13e3c64c193b804e5f25c634ffaf58384792e54de5dde24a8
font_02_sfnt_off0001491b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1491B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1