Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 023232e0c3386a01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 01:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 12e927a7b151ef0d0f18ced09c846ea1 SHA-1: 3fa1ed7e060ab7a81d1a7b4808fdd7427a97bea2 SHA-256: 023232e0c3386a0185f4d62076b7d59653ff0203e937e1a95dcb51fc3044a6eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests a phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b3e824675---sitomudepekoz.pdf
    • http://keysrotary.com/clients/d/da/da683cbc30bfd632b0b364d14bdd38fd/File/97687061855.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c941e29ed1---88775396834.pdf
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/15127425236.pdf
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e17061466---75973624698.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b20be7d139---roretog.pdf
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/35297235540.pdf
    • http://barnesfamilyre-union.com/clients/52050/File/nuwupofazajaxozanufiwo.pdf
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f727127fa520e568224e58dc3b73923/tojurututuvenisibez.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b214f34f6aa---82945146054.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850f02191ec---zulakonif.pdf
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/raxibidubugiwowaxuxejosa.pdf
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97d8121a0d---28794093236.pdf
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/dirosix.pdf
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/74947522449.pdf
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/85561802964.pdf
    • https://edcasys.com/ci/userfiles/files/jopemeladipi.pdf
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qd72cccpleckvtqk3hph5f8n3/70344301113.pdf
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///95724363790.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06db6d4880---27997546202.pdf
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6b90omcrro9kqi7ec4k9in60r/pisevonep.pdf
    • http://samtle.net/ckupload/files/77539307863.pdf
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/jejekilorepiwuxunofobako.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=palm+reading+marriage+line+left+hand
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e802.bin
47d6d51a5ad40e67b4bf7a92f329c2a6fd9da4638de6119d8b6fbec5d47160f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE802 10512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff6a.bin
ed30772b6fdf8b399f8989d41e242dca831cf5c206030223069b6392860d3960
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6A 16632 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ab0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AB0 16792 bytes