Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 230e856a14345093…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:27:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0d35155b311acc4a7fb8506b937281cc SHA-1: 24dad0fd624fe826e0a193a610805f8c75658c4b SHA-256: 230e856a14345093f07d8b9e97e7ca242b161dbe358bfc82d8922d3d0cf8e718
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vn+video+editor+mod+apk+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140188c32420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/gosuzeragetemutizuref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sananselmo.com/wysiwygfiles/file/xopebipedusixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/34135660828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/nalafoxorijimikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fefa1d2860ff2e9d7fd4355133357ad/bavulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangiyaparishadtoronto.ca/bpt/editor/uploadfiles/41818438861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97432647013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101eyewear.com/luutru/files/getawuxuzarujowapivudojol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sskundal.com/userfiles/file/wuxovabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e6cf22940863a79f7bdfc9aa4bc9993/mexumure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/15835400901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/xanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210917034340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///feremizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkpstroitel.ru/upload/files/sotividomizivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuclubcr.com/campannas/file/zajidaxenoxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/81331727957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/54733752142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/zuseximafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huanghels.com/filespath/files/20210905180334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71024309658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/63482308872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilembo.it/userfiles/files/takepejozuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/28821365241.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_off0000eb03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB03 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 35f7dae54ea40782ef440e3405d78b21770f9c9c740a81f3eeb9ce616e7f7bd5
font_01_sfnt_off0001032f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032F 18780 bytes
SHA-256: 7e94f5152cff87b5df6a9b3f0c1cdd9edcf6350ed79bb0c9c6b1638443fca2cc
font_02_sfnt_off000133b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1