Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c431a976a571c4a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 23:03:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ae23fc82a074818404e4d837aa8c64a5 SHA-1: 6d195c51c0ceac430cf8a82b5837a38ab848a0a1 SHA-256: c431a976a571c4a3909c75fa78d0e7f9a05f402c050e8114288058817e2213f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites used for hosting. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9767

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=paper+wrapped+sponge+cake PDF link annotation
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f929f87207d2de956a58fe9ddd727bd6/12423586709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16cdf27f5df258224017d53d93432eea/nuguvegotibeluxezafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/8531659021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/nasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb1505d25e---37683714773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a019e64625f---nubeluzejezafunajonoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ximangsongthao.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/34320581825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2n7cidqgdkb59of7eu902dg853/19910346615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a288354546---52848226350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/nuroxokebasag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/73191356902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vuipmclbuei4sqgs6sb97v8150/87150246624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0df1680ef1---13507919181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/fozovetodufozakomiparaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da5ee72baee990eae51b43baa14e288/kuxosuxasazoxagekexak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/11921915566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/19998702407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3549156517b0d54b3fe0bb5043eefe2/vorajebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ac4ee2fb9935f98b9d009795eb751ce/20680386148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0d251a68d---fejojepewupobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cce916f3f5---78634859751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/918ocv188veupi1c4mbpa8r7i7/74369915908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v8c2gj3km0nlpek5nkbtb8qon9/88584425057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850920db8ad---87474442123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adf065034b0d08929e818e2f4c46e047/fijopezeweleweloziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010a93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A93 2528 bytes
SHA-256: 37fb54abb11da4d354f6aff135668d2a3f9544ebcc4602de325514bf2b4889d3
font_01_sfnt_off00011576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11576 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 559c4a31ebd1fe444d61070ee65e83eb7923afd7dfc34f79b5519c215e2c100d
font_02_sfnt_off00012c31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C31 18692 bytes
SHA-256: ffe1f4420ecc0e35c7fa8305f5d754f2414b0174715070afd3ab0c61329ebf68
font_03_sfnt_off00015df8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DF8 10632 bytes
SHA-256: f611480fb0398bfb9902ae0115a97b41c0cb045af9de180e322541f6293df5fe
font_04_sfnt_off00017647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17647 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1