Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 231fdc546dd0fe14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:56:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8b3d0cac72b66ba2f05e1889ef968a21 SHA-1: 45f649f6bf159823dd7ade3171b3a87d466913f2 SHA-256: 231fdc546dd0fe14d6621a9dad2ce7b0587ef447f142ba656de15b44f68b9f21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or link farm attack. The presence of external URI links and compromised CMS upload links indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious or deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=altium+designer+17+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71498d44d0abbc031cbdda6e5679948e/3495820751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/754311mk5lcnibud50147508s7/kiniriwazigurezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esvigo.com/upload/files/12392766223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6id9t4vqmfih8clb2v1nt374en/nitosukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76112514477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/69541850456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b3a47bbe3ffb0e51d37bd2d001439ab/lanopabekopobivagoxoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/xefibeforanemabejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7va2b2pahe4jht3oe286mo7896/tubezogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fewuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdcbb79e5fa---35652215178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukewittfarms.com/userfiles/file/29680232600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinavaron.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakifilopevurom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3ac344de81cd29bb2175f48c5e1e282/50079125307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents//files/29268136598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/34016028545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093943405e76---53821858234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/sipilizefubabemibivinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ffd71b7a76---relazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/53889852235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giorgiosantinelli.it/file/76294853428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/388263e5131ee4e68e47c196c739887e/koguwunipame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/gulaguvufolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4p0p492v7j88k944jlfkk5anr9/dezemomadedexutogep.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_off0000e0bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BF 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 255e777d571db7b8be11d9e772d7d8ffe91125b78ba97065a6574c3911eb3318
font_01_sfnt_off00010d5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D5D 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 193b558194115cc0e87c19eb889e7276b5c88d368bcfd8d3e12e4c5203c0d74d
font_02_sfnt_off00012679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12679 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1