Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 107023b6594f79fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-18 18:21:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 03d727242668cdb032097d14f22de413 SHA-1: 1c1e45701f07cb408277106bfea6435536354886 SHA-256: 107023b6594f79febb792d1f51d3b918baf3c1e8d251725baac4d1208f8adb1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest this document's purpose is to lure victims to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://toshiteriyakiburien.com/uploads/files/49350272774.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0feeskc3cjvqoue1l1ego27oi7/zuxovugetifulifajaxibawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d86bea5f57---18495711082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb065428d1---96297404824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gistys.com/userfiles/file/96794862099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/vugolaxakakepakuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8fe34ef75c---9070105793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/45635438780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b14954f608---wusubevirewagekitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movementlab.dk/userfiles/file/29177516968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/worobazerenefaxukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/67489407374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e8f227e4c---1975928939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5f5aec16d0a3f5815d53e29cc8fab11/81783733703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/54604553068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/16230251989427221471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a213028b3d---mamuxinezopalitovefiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b72329a2cbf3361adcfde1f6b6aa5237/45659112678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089beb85ec83---73489252569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4545c48a60---nowosom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/48406602126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e93a2ae04690ae63c7d3618f5f31973e/75720539701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/28173695217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/kedatexikerib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/podekomezujadur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu7jbgd1m548or6n8aepaam5g6/78651380826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=penis+inside+another+penisPDF 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_off0000ef43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10755 16780 bytes
SHA-256: ed65055c4ced97d6d464c71e306458d9b5082b7c3dd9cd7a8a9866400d49c3c1
font_02_sfnt_off000132bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132BF 10444 bytes
SHA-256: e2922cf5426392555f9c0652592cbe1603c499660c2863d398606cb2a311f3bf