Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0023e1ed29173246…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:58:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2b04860851acf690fa3f26b694cc2241 SHA-1: 873742e9a3efbffeadc07b50f033fa67b535f6e0 SHA-256: 0023e1ed291732461c7888bfd0adf0cb12d9b8ad1e1a2e1e24d19b81c3a7ad69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common tactic to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quick+search+box+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://ormansagszive.hu/upload/file/49973038837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.somdattabasu.com/fckimages/file/nuxanarejanebudanoxeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuanx.com/v15/Upload/file/202194225133307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heorungminhphat.com/luutru/files/61787454807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10330249525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d795e38c9---3622134163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/48445982902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzcil.com/uploadfile/files/63795434750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/127f37f4a04c1b6eec8c528825c7ab4f/jukamite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91854615731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oolong-dining-co.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/morupamezofefitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bazila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/56778477102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/files/36696467526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckeditor.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45665701184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/68928716131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/81474898173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hearing-outlet.com/uploads/files/202109151250555073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139feb8e6b76---96754961905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braghieriarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/wumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/57736318207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/348998441.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_off0000d2ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2FF 18952 bytes
SHA-256: 217324bbf4e12664d91cfc44db3e792cba3b949ed32d95afde0e56a664c98454
font_01_sfnt_off000104a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A3 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 9c648268851aed63a124abf015ddbf96401ee085123b481b06611cb3b097a57a
font_02_sfnt_off00011d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1