Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f31b5ece3ed3b121…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 05:41:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cffd97dd9f7c538e34395f2ff0911f8b SHA-1: 7268f93d99bdef0029fc6b40de7366d3d3de90ff SHA-256: f31b5ece3ed3b121f98295f39136b4f48e139d1f2f460bd008d6b58777521450
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The PDF document itself contains heavily obfuscated and unreadable content, suggesting it is designed to host numerous links rather than provide user-facing information. The presence of multiple URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, strongly indicates an attempt to direct users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/jobolozedobazudupubodade.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ec57f0b96---39031997196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5b95b9640---gubofokozigosiwedipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cd55fc26488341b8003bb44813d4a66/88433361164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/bakidamusonozuxajutobokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq6kpk823gohmp7fudp0pc5f37/joramusiletepedowopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/dimegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089af882863a---69966469482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38d26ec9bdc0a919ffbe9f6e65570986/35648990269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608028b5d87eb---kanipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8d46c7cd34---tasutavifujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6jgsr1p0hknf4o6sjs91gc4m5/lelopulopowogovimobobebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f34c4a1ba---dufagupeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/vamilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87786732178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/sapujasiwapazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/41961885795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14153a9d3f---95204128980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rm-parketi.si/uploads/gimadefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a368ad9aba8---92491609040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iproperty.ae/userfiles/file/sijikijugewobilaloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/vigexixemofizagipepazisaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lv8g5tleg6v0apl20mo9qb6ecd/morosederofogenawonusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.com/images/upload/files/53094803068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c21a18688f---nimifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892c5cb572b---78315771449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=hours+of+sleep+by+agePDF 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_off0000f67e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF67E 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 0aacdb8362297a730140e656af256159377ec932b49ff84c41d07062d3c39cf3
font_01_sfnt_off00010e9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126B1 16508 bytes
SHA-256: 7e79d204094a4aae6163f1e2ca70e2876bd7234c809386362fcbfbf392933e52