Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c31d7bfe21aa0c8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:04:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1dea75c4d92276ce8a89aadca8516c8a SHA-1: d41e4fc0452ac16bbd861e4375aa691bb8616b8b SHA-256: c31d7bfe21aa0c8f9f7a2309c61fd64a55faea72f75a6470d48c088f96ddae6e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of links pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan indicates a phishing or trojanized document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://varosom.hu/userfiles/files/supuga.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/86446569168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/69757990418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704e94acede---gosotixokulelixovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doosradashak.in/ci/userfiles/files/nusipemafadat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c325e957ec---kevuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/94305835601623992336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/gusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr05rjtjl4ubuaknha4hu2c0jt/28002289154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd00cd3410c---27001670088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f26177aeeb---97806999584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/81967889391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55f77f7511c7de8cfca709bff673a88a/pewebibazonasuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://herfection.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210629075419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/wolupesoxanifumetus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/44117910825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7s862j6v97ee7rk2psff8fb4is/36476331083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcetravel.com/files/file/26018381166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50940826248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/luzirelipomadulobijobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///kanezuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c449f7734e89fd1fa751a5926d4d783a/jowidaloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f26272119---jidavimizepemexepizogepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/laxuwofolijinokubosivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25fff572e4---sivisodefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=not+valid+input+for+nuance+pdf+create+assistantPDF 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_off0000cfaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFAF 18120 bytes
SHA-256: 9c9e16ebab1059198146ffdbab8fee4bd8753f8f5d4832e330aeb6ac215179d6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11617 10756 bytes
SHA-256: e1cdd2f6a21681f33734a25980b1f0a146e4ad3671ec16bf4dc858e8b95ac719