Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b23719a222da265…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:37:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0b9e95ac0adbec76603c7efb702b20c2 SHA-1: 69771e0fab4d27bf25d5f5834912b6b544f72258 SHA-256: 1b23719a222da2650ac315ba6a72f16542bb366f63b37a7d928fbaafd1e4d3aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Some links point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a malicious intent to distribute or host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ridendo.cz/files/file/95190078748.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/nerusokutesivanodugofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopinhome.com/ci/userfiles/files/69943888063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/zunekesuzezipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://p99.tw/pro_pic/files/faviwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/5326067970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/65044266877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midesignvn.com/uploads/files/93393351276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nj1nte6hr761poepb9r68q2rt3/92703151990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee4faae4eec---gobazojopidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/kepusovafuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/pelofunozusofugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsp.by/userfiles/files/busisetirixilifalazoxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4114d23a97529b8bcd6fdc30d8109dc/pawezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a7a9bed1938---kabimuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/rubelixoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/30765443183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de3b6d72eb---tovitikusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vrq21hl2ts25n2ijbho47obt0/xuroxujaverokukiterarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3381294a34---2579086235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chichen.asia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kexedajenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pbdqljhe5huv856pf65assota/88097223530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+threshold+frequency+for+photoelectric+effect+on+sodiumPDF 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_off0000f9fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11215 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 5b06ffb10985d78d82858b8c92af748b91318ea25c78f115271b3c988bfe80c3
font_02_sfnt_off00012b69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B69 19392 bytes
SHA-256: bcc1ff480c7b1d3145bbfed94a2845202679a3975806ea9d5bf1d8eeb57a9817