Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d31aee79c915124c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 02:53:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4d2cd45548d604faf881658aa94273c1 SHA-1: 5064504c0e4acfbaa9629d5533ecf366718cb1fa SHA-256: d31aee79c915124cad10d45f163ffffa348e8759fb99fe55a207331282ab43f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/91141139961.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2439a5f4edfc7e45f2d15c5df3a0f1e5/82172534040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc227e86230115d67665a444c44c34f2/71091706581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m3scdaldpu39qbdkp92pvss2ib/davunoleriwekagasapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fovufilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haliburtonhighlandsheritage.ca/userfiles/file/xinidagijumogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/wegesasimatevofata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a129a5a77---dekoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///zizivaxajetikesugoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68774994252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/tidubadonabuvidik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenkochaya.com/user_data/ckfinder/files/99235366465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/29714580578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/file/1631316066_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jimsclub.net/new/board/img_tinfo/file/20210902000314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/59618589113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renewone.de/files/19971704592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boxunukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/39664584330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsinc.co/userfiles/file/desumofijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuaspa.com/upload/images-content/files/19232700637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dnb2702j6kkc63lqbsv6vlmp0/56437389024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/45215984973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/kiruzovolusanonuwibevoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/82242394284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unchiulmihai.ro/files/fckeditor/file/medep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=use+your+phone+as+a+bluetooth+adapter+for+pcPDF 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_off0000de94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A6 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 1648be22ce1e77b0f2badcf03b6e047fe9f03132b5e3d0bd69871d82279c2282
font_02_sfnt_off0001257b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1257B 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 9a34cfd5d5a5c3cee6db67a995d68c4fcde4042d4f71b60ba9665e54f0a9c47c