Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be31534385162d7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-21 22:57:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fb4cab5c657a4b5b80e127329e0496f9 SHA-1: e14c05ec490ad652495e600a35c38a6043089be3 SHA-256: be31534385162d7a5de8776b9504b0f12d93a2e16cc2f755dcbf65a23ea26f8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious domains. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external, untrusted content, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe350f99ae09d4636c8ad6348c7f8d4d/riverugamevopadajopi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr80hue3sieubohkbdvapsut3d/kakuvepixepibudaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0o1gd004380pn0cqhaddhbo8lf/41951560688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/pevopex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3m8k0h4sd4mjehf3bg9so3md04/8451029867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giant-nano.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/95835059543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd00c9be741---wewewebuwuraxeden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859e752b757---98703407280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rw-hse-businessconsulting.de/userfiles/file/posodibowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863bdf5d0e3---84006479135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/duzuripigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12337102215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808636b4314---saxilesanawodemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ca1896a6b1fb2a5c7fd9461cb0ad482/wilunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbceeda4765---suxuwisitolunatepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f87c1e752---xijefudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f7ldda1n3d9ktn1rthd3fjt2/90059695512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6729b5be7b1a6b5cd404010c299f0ab/81568394102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d0jnl0dr8gvvvsra5qmhl4qk0/jagotuguvowixojetolotisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca4174b4f21---wifujesexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab2f2090c2c37eef73d4b58cc3fbf74/79922969588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc16be99db6---filozipabivumatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jsfebjnfksoj054nfo2klv9k2/datiketadaboxikususebode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a11abed2a16952b1655319fd5053734/41465744465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ae6aa7d9a---pigawikusenagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=smallest+even+number+of+three+digitPDF 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_off0000ecc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC8 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 9141921ade131b3f00640000e6a33e54e37b17b3bad562e026c6d899256ca3dd
font_01_sfnt_off00010680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10680 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E92 18260 bytes
SHA-256: d418c9c2f7430c5bb25d56fd22a1b6d4ea8ca65ae58de3da2d8d204d8be7cea9