Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c31fdb8be0780ea7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:49:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0534ca260446d20eb4eed8298b088856 SHA-1: 2f4f5db1fa77b735f2d37c9d2a89143144db12a7 SHA-256: c31fdb8be0780ea730cc29a537a497b8b45e682752871cd0a5a39385d785fdb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to disguise malicious activity as a legitimate tutorial PDF, likely leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://rotarylaspalmas.org/documentos/file/sokekolig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f116ab92b---29991440322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/wawuzowazevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/286f6ece56c840573edbb6ac2e7cf06d/fozuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/bamibukifepifupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b02cce29e---rafegazoxabevuwovev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-26/20210526150849422020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gitezigetuturam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ed6905c8c9a6d1c2123113df862399/luzowilabubusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/UserFiles/files/radinufototodurufavitepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/berozodadivofanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/xasijobaxokefuwiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/vijoluzurevibusija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/buvofunotomazifalexasele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c505400c81e694512d29a4b2b276f92/56804900302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamantina-joaillerie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sixesajijipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41934591015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oris-am.com/editor_up/xedokawerukatokukiket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/55737738270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/48979513980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/godolidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/ponudajigobularikove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/pijor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a216e052177---bijesafexeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/jobari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83095391941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=unix+and+linux+tutorial+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_off0000dd06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF518 16744 bytes
SHA-256: f09ec0ccce7d7ae4aab02bbad088b728f9609d75a99c4a218952e5020736c550
font_02_sfnt_off00012083.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12083 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 271534f9cd99da9b9389480a8fc5dff02a341d06a54f47854120703ccaf59161