Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23059c8d9bda6c13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-29 05:20:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7483b73db92aad7dfc4af3016a9033c9 SHA-1: a3ca87812324f5adecba700a69bd2cf9e71f964a SHA-256: 23059c8d9bda6c1359d2a180c371456bd59a699c6a146d83786148eb29f7534f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this attack pattern.

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://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152f4cf2fd21---maveserabuzedolasudaxux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/ririgenuzedodajuvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/nupasumawalixemujixisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/bewatumipevuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vitanov.rs/files/sowikibibapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210926_010710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijadumoluwoliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgic.ru/!upload/files/vipilejenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/61600038907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/risufotolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/muwovodivazitubemeraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/biwuzizufuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adetexfoamgroup.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/gatetelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e5tbr.alruaa.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/54802518523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed766783fcc08d7ca61e97f3bb7f25c9/9978500995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eg-connect.com/uploads/editorfiles/file///viluwife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/dosejabofuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143539667efb---kedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/xunuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/fedexozinikebinamipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/lojijum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/file/84350685410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37aa475f301c20abe70390a031cd06c0/lakasomaguripunosede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ver+300+online+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off0000b3c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD8 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 308c53dd90608d1cbc46f26c65820c1e6d6a1302f3acfe31b820a88d59a0393d
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3ED 17668 bytes
SHA-256: 2b64122e6b5b77b1bb780ffec41a62f2a126b56638d906a0c2047be9904ce26f