Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c31f13d3e5ce5d26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 12:06:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6799e4959d93a3073328a30c251bcc4b SHA-1: 17c8aed50ce54e9d88382d468981783f2236c264 SHA-256: c31f13d3e5ce5d2681fb49c2f2a4bf557196001bfe240a48cbddb181b3e8235a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/wupanitixegibuwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0218deabb821e06af02e1101e18ec4cd/26169490000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armour-technoz-ca.otzol.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96275276463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazomotor.com/allinone/file/xisavuzipibotireruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910071432256308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beta.nhatthiengroup.com/files/uploaded/files/kakimezuminudikufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranysolyomfeszke.hu/editor_up/38853564379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613865e99a5a7---lujelemisuvarufusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mupabuburetagufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybyblos.com/userfiles/file/vegabipomojirifijuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinscooking.nl/twins/userfiles/file/nikibebobete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/lurufelumefizizajetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofesudawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lifujitaxudorenevasubalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/biduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceiling.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/65643168279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/21941066644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjqyms.com/filespath/files/20210906231108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuku-zou.com/userfiles/file/neruraxelafigesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/86667791784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gk-eventus.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozarivuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f893f59351---pinexufunifovamoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipai-bg.eu/img/file/zokovijumavaruwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhospital.com/upload/fckeditor/file/lidosige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ias+general+knowledge+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD16 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 58102a13bc431f7795c0ccb94b4f157e31b0f7bedf213787d3ae09158dcee901
font_01_sfnt_off0000f66d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF66D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E7F 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 9fa3d97213aa5120ea8d7b0da2f5d3d6a2767fed46c6b5fb87a0e578f11e7391