Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 231debbff33ac67d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:14:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b16193e979104bb2ed949aac8c26687b SHA-1: e5775043a615088723ee3137ba96987e0ead766f SHA-256: 231debbff33ac67da548db7a2511ea111fe032504f81f420808897f8e4eed8fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a potential distribution or phishing campaign. The document's structure and embedded links suggest it is designed to lure users to malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/vamolubunorudus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c53e298a40---78174777293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21a58445e375a42514cf4078c8fe7d84/noxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/63032608407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happyfun.tw/uploads/files/202108240354324306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a753ae5a22445af4ec561617b759effb/22349900485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/735cd2b33774152b1f41b1444c6a08d2/wanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendstyleimage.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58714751387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940c8590104---52337295405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/zuzipala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photojet.bg/userfiles/file/71894317091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2q1iq241ubg2um0d6m9170oe1/dijasunuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jhservice.net/imagenes/galeria/files/58155242261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af096c1049da54bc4a35eba6e4c96334/36329100872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/94734939949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/clc04bq230k6knprabd6mdngi6/pixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db43c2367c---valovawawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodykneadstherapy.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/genanasezizidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0ef0835ae---38232215741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161029e48b72e7---35869398980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasijomatitaniwewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-sanya.com/blog_images/blog_/file/93583680470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecologie-energie.com/userfiles/file/katosugovutekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=20+hc+dimensionsPDF 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_off0000d165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD165 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 3ce17c8385e177d18199d463aa12f793a074e09ce229bc2bd9b273cc07bc0364
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C0 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 5b1566078130b77099afad686332e0c0d3949342dcde3343a98155585d515bc7