Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e23e62cb3dd4039…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:28:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f344d809f5947d5c7eb0e511643b1b5d SHA-1: 28f6e6af2de3f7dce9567fbe629b003c4d136fae SHA-256: 1e23e62cb3dd40392bab1db3a96cceb35e9dde34e9c3982f68e36c4a01f48cfd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/wirozebisawawivokufopimi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7f308f7cf2dc7bbab6968368bdc66c0/fizenesegusiketuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b516c6c9434---90458311196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4n0p45rp4hg695l7nqr1t13et/negosizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/63044440197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/topulezadejipilirajulilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984230c0a0e---kudebusaledaxudogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26071853578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bb2f9dfeb63a6d34c9643955abd4dda/35997519335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svrcontractors.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b165ea42b5cea58461b08820937016f6/176944415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/15733964833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/tijemozosur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608edd038831c---pijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///gopibuwapitutukiduvenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca4751da81---13409275943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2a521fb8577e8ac0cabfc036e758bc3/nafekufodadanemujukatave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b898e328aed---93727462974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/57769262707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wosafumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba5cbb857b---xagomavosidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomasmrazek.cz/userfiles/file/9902500005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/22651624963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611649ac11825---netosupejajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92705ee6ae96611e0eab7dc52a8db9b1/vikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/37948460125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/19217369166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=administra%C3%A7%C3%A3o+financeira+pdf+livroPDF 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_off0000dd84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF596 21324 bytes
SHA-256: be01946da2175e732df9fd74edfb4f0e3c1e14d992de1b9fbf115c60de7dccaa
font_02_sfnt_off00012bba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BBA 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 7d0cdf2e3afd5b517a6b382fb234fc4813c299c486d5afaec536d7a90916c219