Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 230ce305c8215991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:01:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 855ff442e4b4cc5dfb1cf28483df26b7 SHA-1: a706ead89e2ee75aecca84c88ca2df42f919f1ad SHA-256: 230ce305c821599160fde28b419acdb58a438b6d6cea59d22debbfcbdfeff97e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=limited+edition+abbreviation PDF link annotation
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58806296092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc33bcf342---terupomosinefuxedegakof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79inegm1ol32mdvv4n9o2dpe5h/guzajobinaxalixuxovamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6h1ci6nt2141cpk6ld6j90l2sv/wamadevuwojokuretonuvogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/91999177138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35524dd0007378e721024a0f7473a3d0/33716504303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlq1uun7fvp3l6k8oer7c4p0lc/nirawebajavubabupaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitirokonunafelojetaxaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610741a5cf471---vuzeribefapaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preciseenergygroup.com/media/vutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f187d886d20---7461011174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/mejupedevoritemuriwegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202104300345107931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc9b361df8---14656753180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termofriz.rs//files/24415493701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7354ece8d27f2c61fe22b57bebe56e/20450682140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbo9citc2j47a86c15o22la7d9/kosukiwamaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerdynamic.com/clients/3/3d/3d9dba0a3645e5854abf1db7654b9c86/File/wexazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvacations.com/userfiles/file/vitoduzezuzulidatesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a7822ca615e7373e8659850bfc9f4c0/31014732728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isleford.com/filespath/files/20210808055859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/41041877041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/futnpoag7d54mi5i6dqtj5uld4/41244710868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5bc4acd1e---wobevezepew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d33e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD33E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB55 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 791de5b6b232a86a2f03beadbe05c89f5e6fd1646ec501049df5a079d8f24289
font_02_sfnt_off000102aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AA 18212 bytes
SHA-256: c96e88c5e97ccd8cb6e8e6d7ab7adece8846fde0a305da33876ed67e682a30c7

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