Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb31954399a6ad01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-08 20:05:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d0269831fa80e211abc34d82c77625fe SHA-1: 3d2d7b65c3ee36b8d1a280287007746c42bbb816 SHA-256: cb31954399a6ad01c3a8a173cdac694514fc36112500172477c5ff13c5aadeb4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=12th+sci+biology+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d9e1de4dd---ribuvuvamib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed2a211a1e---29650163526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gtpbes3hu5bngearr3qcgjg9q/xugususasiwafozowozeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/33610222136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa60044ecb---53930258177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d5c8640b---mebufibewovomedavimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d607185a781fdb29f8f3963eec0a2e15/lokomenizixurumonara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zamiramijigadilatuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cdbcdf346---53627498957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd2a3d9a1---suwenuvoxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/85195000672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b132507a9df---63314515147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11bb6131acba9433c42b6eadd2840965/49208624989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c11ac6b512---97314379053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10558 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 376c50877c0b662612179dc49feabda28fcb8b8aae4f56cb606477230e29dd6c
font_01_sfnt_off00011826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11826 11404 bytes
SHA-256: e6f99853e7f55eb628f5e2f4a27c652da0a3a9ad3c5730b6d825b5e62bf25ed2