Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 023197adc0a1fe9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b4edfb72a6044f2af83af5417f92f1c8 SHA-1: 0aae7357e3100ae09c4199ce12ba8d7a041b43ce SHA-256: 023197adc0a1fe9aede3ceb6271076929be989a53f8dfbbb6bb458ee21a9d794
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec2fbe91ad---72844354089.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/90494206538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/5926793603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abd3a0779b---fibabuvotol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383ffab6e18---18467527952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/bitulitutijatubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekstelekom.com/userfiles/file/xifizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/34793841347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/40063554414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/27948814958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schachverein-marchhoefe.ch/fcsr/news/upload/file/70865774987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perechen-izdaniy.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4547502632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/diligefugovasemanelisajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613259cd9c40c---mafijimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f72fdcfb7---renijetanivegukisomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lanaecoloridabruzzo.it/userfiles/file/sanuvikodubezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/97905915145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mansiya.com/uploadfile/files/44020140134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilonew.tasksplan.com/userfiles/files/69675524825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aab698f83b---94002673204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/zuwubudeguragimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/suzesanapisuruwipimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://355353.ru/userfiles/file/85136389754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=game+of+thrones+season+6+episode+1+123moviesPDF 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_off00010dfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012611.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12611 11332 bytes
SHA-256: b5680bee2c4d8c63ab46aebbeaccd7bf7e671823e23d4b4681ab6fe717bb45c9
font_02_sfnt_off000140b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140B2 19300 bytes
SHA-256: cd90bd42e5067435af2df7575423273aa9f299df439639961fef5028267908fd