Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c31ca8b02093b5c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:18:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3f05e6fae483dd42bb51002e6b17504e SHA-1: 1d830e4a566909f682b94d32a7b591d9e79d0159 SHA-256: c31ca8b02093b5c76ebc3fd9097b91713bc8fc8f77d6bddac98c89e400888289
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are structured as link farms on disposable hosting. These URLs likely serve as lures for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://senarathgroup.lk/assets/media/file/81275483840.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/697df20c20ff1d7a94e78085e1f01670/tasakunevitagitatutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72c6d58ccc1a8cc023e74779e1d34f4b/28482130908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074055445873---57623763711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcivan.com/admin/UserFiles/file/44954167989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvvseffk628266gio2o3107ku2/wamarufudonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/702f5e4624ea288e542b8c8d832e78c5/nitatene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greer2001.com/clients/e/ea/ea56749d84c1a2d7db36d2c51c833a37/File/vavifojolidino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/bonigoketovudebetimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdc6cf5e87cbc0aa8fad80ce15de6e48/paximexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7bb8ab04165626fce3c4e94455ae713/65392040758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixline.ru/img/lib/file/fiwumipasolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f938d7b32---76889871717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1b049eda7---77909716112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/sisibugodebupinofefuwixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021082206040212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebranchoflife.org/clients/3/37/37a84c4c47f147f839b5d5a44bb1b86c/File/11013117182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/bureleludiwukurekogira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119fbe25308d---62749788638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gobelsprofil.com/upload/files/zazuletetedivodusenagobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/mojinowanawapunabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/80398631508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=al+arabiyyah+bayna+yadayk+book+2+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000cbf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE407 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 32dcd30dbf0374af7a0b5d80221b74c665ea77f08f27580b9d6d6b1feb92da62
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC6F 18560 bytes
SHA-256: e1cc8d6211a8acdc84c5bacf9a99bf0d486a37a0be825cfda4c3a324f7a7823d