Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23070ee11a129217…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-21 16:25:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0490c45d2a499357d9afcde7028797ca SHA-1: f90e4c48e6bfb01ffc3843554e1667957565b7a8 SHA-256: 23070ee11a12921710424d24df0abe944339f315eca5c648e1f56f9c7a9f3ea5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign where the initial PDF serves as a lure to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a05dd581157ea79264c2286b120701ec/zefiwasobenumeso.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb3406d126---piserafukegusexutelatituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f1435465f43dca33a15be1044032e88/garirovanato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85b7461fabf882088362552e925b3413/sowajivuwaberamaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puntolinea.org/userfiles/files/54754511889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72978be554ef57b35fa809d133394177/jetunolozimubuwupezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/zefonusoforakuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jibekerotijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/26827713481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0d16d9b7d7f76f6f99597dd0c79f87d/femakevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/91507992664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/1877891136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/losukodemazevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.bgk-meshkova.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wotoxazotuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbonelite.ru/file/14359988298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/25387568298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmakler.org/userfiles/file/nugedafowonaxuvivowisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ab60d5cece---52104842181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a7355bfbc---nibopitanefebufirofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k82r5k8goq0tlkccm3783e6nd2/67343119034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95296353373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kehqjkmjn1u4r8qauatd1m78kp/forigizekifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf4cd221ce8---vaderuginedatexemekib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9126f7eb0a2004db7dfd953fcd106a1b/10410517818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce6787ce40---ginujuvuxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=extreme+landings+pro+free+download+pc+windows+7PDF 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_off0000ed28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED28 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 304368cd5cccf29abc5753c5e9e006dd67802d46e05105c2591ac8d66c6ef659
font_01_sfnt_off000118db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DB 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 5374bf193fd6512569af6076e93abab6b399705b805d115065b64d9ba11305f3
font_02_sfnt_off000132ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1