Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23250a372638e4e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:48:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 925734791a647c1f8483bd941076c446 SHA-1: 5cd210d9c1fb9bbbcd6058a367a2ebc8548aee4c SHA-256: 23250a372638e4e7caedae557950869d8ab638ce1066edcd8ca4ea20ee048752
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external files, many hosted on what appears to be disposable or compromised domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to evade initial gateway scanning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://dietacud.eu/upload/file/10121891901.pdf
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/bixupajigefojujibeju.pdf
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/bimeropoboxejega.pdf
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f7329e14683b1c580568e31b9b6679/96498860837.pdf
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae5a6e0b1d---libegupuj.pdf
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/9676094237.pdf
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/lodokudemom.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5bdbabc08---22894324315.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d51f8c092f---19555062291.pdf
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/20920827275.pdf
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/56673316422.pdf
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/56548288981.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d399bd80e---fapuni.pdf
    • http://integrotech.eu/zdjecia/file/25252007831.pdf
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/gekab.pdf
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac553096e59bc7eb35db22af850d765/28543323519.pdf
    • https://zemtechnika.lt/public/site/0files/96109520004.pdf
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b892b2dc3bc---tuvusekokugejof.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2ccaco2jc1o02e3f623o3orbl/kozisulexokir.pdf
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/lanokunitubelebavitax.pdf
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/fapepilolagugadejape.pdf
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/zokavateb.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=convertir+jpg+vers+pdf+en+ligne
    • 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_off0000cfb1.bin
bc285ed2688b5a242ce202867322e0cc1c00432f23480b866e721c95c0942e41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB1 10736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e83f.bin
b085e0a7e05302c1f767abcb4fe233315fb514d50f718e4f45dce334592c1f82
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE83F 19132 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000117e1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E1 16792 bytes