Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d31bac31ec0021af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8b95a01287936b8da252808bc48af146 SHA-1: 40ca14db4939506aa90f79f61f95c50d4168d39e SHA-256: d31bac31ec0021af54e1ac30efcd5042d49af1d03b536eeb3ece3d94d69e0d5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of the 'utm_term' parameter suggests a phishing or scam attempt to lure users into downloading files. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+apex+launcher+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://kanat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gudalalazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7179ab293bf70972a14f109abe24751/25474461868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/fuvineperigogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/uploads/misc/files/romufebulebikulidedofaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/nivaparetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rq8qn35p103g9bgkb8iiupa3f2/rabezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/22440997652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j20u88f6ms948965hvt3llv365/76026542396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/89156685401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/fefinagivapudidosipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amunt.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demenavoborozizirarexala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/xikenonenel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/45497300596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelkenaghshband.com/app/webroot/img/files/27094412597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/juzolira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-melodie-des-saveurs.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jopoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/35437746051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datozofejikaduwezod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubbiz.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/zozonasajudamitaminunesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48002670553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0090fde7c7fe298f95739697e974649/suwenujogeramax.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE543 19020 bytes
SHA-256: acf7ed31332216c018e3e54af9be3fcd1f5d99d19aa3e599de632daf2d96a22d
font_02_sfnt_off00011727.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11727 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 0c7525c210dbf0eb99ba3c7cbe03bab204bde21f7be78f3eb8201781eadfbc55