Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23196b9538e44dd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:29:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5ab7511f094f5b8733dc4d90c1e8fdd4 SHA-1: a20c77db35e8836fac1ea093f8d4552fb7e03ecf SHA-256: 23196b9538e44dd86b816545b6af1f5e9d85b9db62b1f80d1c1c1ca8d293cd0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous disposable domains and compromised CMS uploads, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's designed to hide its true malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://tythb.cn/uploadfile/files/18002725679.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6b01ad1e2a---pekosopogamureri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/75000027471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///50180379281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e98250498c2defc09357d4432793b68/daduxexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2faf9d8360bfa922866db2837b82134/tidotelazijageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tpq70va3ijr3spetj4t6l4sk4/62700153249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4952f6719b1bfbe1f4ee4326b3510aaa/88916312168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b14954f608---wusubevirewagekitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfk-dekoration.dk/images/uploadedimages/file/63831768900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/20575997901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a46adc8cf---155478661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/lakikiralukipitoguvaribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610868a294250---9030279796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/tilifogenopidifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ruchya.com.tw/upload/files/34788133064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushigonewildtogo.com/uploads/files/muvenusudikajovuwumarugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzstock.com/Upfiles/file/ruzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsm.company/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11522077032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/rodamad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/18522760593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/nubaledodofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=escala+de+coma+de+glasgow+pdf+2019PDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df6e3fbf5530a4d48712d1d1fd53e5a7/niboguwasadutuluwumoga.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_off0000c7c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C0 16784 bytes
SHA-256: e62d59ca71ee46509691d900d330ebe00573f91f7aa9e6cefa31059e899fc1bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FE 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 5f7728c54d233ddb0fab1928304854c81a27e5764dce4d5d9f84627c19fa1fee
font_02_sfnt_off00010be0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1