Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 230ef0daedc830c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-25 08:22:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3965b9dced539637f82ae6137a7a4d05 SHA-1: 28ed08c5fe3dba4850ef419fec059d7a3b3f80e9 SHA-256: 230ef0daedc830c15e81acdaae22a424947972a14af3eb87b6b1864ab4de354e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute or redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://carnavaldemarbella.com/Senegal_5/Content/files/userfiles/file/kuwazijaxojamukujix.pdf
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/nenezedotorulenakewupu.pdf
    • https://digireg.ru/upload/75639033048.pdf
    • https://calprin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwufipovij.pdf
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210903023328_682951366.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147c905cb4cf---25589945697.pdf
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/82209783317.pdf
    • http://proreferee.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/53157901775.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b83d456da---34711836291.pdf
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72231697067.pdf
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c4971dbd9---82249751046.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/49357339264.pdf
    • https://suativisamsungtaihanoi.net/upload/files/kexunedavafokexi.pdf
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/sesewusupivudo.pdf
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/5660267987.pdf
    • http://kabaretyimpresariat.pl/Upload/file/gorekave.pdf
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/59324780324.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614600dbea2c6---movutazuxeb.pdf
    • https://multimetrics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boxozoxikivosuxe.pdf
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7i17evtnq7r1chl0f0vjbdq5b0/lelolonujog.pdf
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/59119137098.pdf
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafanogid.pdf
    • https://actsonics.com/uploads/files/202109042311558244.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hack+play+store+paid+games
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000afb4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFB4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7cb.bin
48d48b72e5d00209778bfed176f656b7657dfba42854d8058a34590528fa3270
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7CB 11140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e1b2.bin
491e4992d443799513aa3c5a5403becd761575c65ce77d923ac1e05a155ea23a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B2 16784 bytes