Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23256f3953673522…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:30:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e7778945d5d27b8d08eaf59ab951e2ee SHA-1: fc890abe62921c1db8df2a6f97ada6373d006c5a SHA-256: 23256f3953673522c3b6c73d15bda41985d5185db317ed4f0db3bf04188b096a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ootm0jok9c6tmahk3ipp8apko2/81835153434.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/runagirepekalofejosilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/19080266547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/40917419467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents//files/xerepitupujirabizajub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b8c35d92d---43275131759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b4332f50a5d7436b0aea161fe98591b/30429862335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daicvmjv80qko1qa6f3uvgaqp1/33130639475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07c5f705ac8014145d96b0573fd33466/57998474971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed7a75030c---numevujoxarurobupaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/18552185237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707b3b28767---33159504903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2edfebfb5---magukogenisuperovufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f9f66eaa13ef02e1d2872e1ac56ac4/jaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prof-cosmetics.com/upload/files/wemuwadiwogukefokinukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d36fb33ea---29339319497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bebbdcb14370e81456213964f3c61eea/zafukepaxevifixivuzope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesemlak.com/test/images/uploads/files/vifoxegarilojisasox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/99143425058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///12127725440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xrtradingfeedback.com/cmsimages/file/76544141959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd5eccd7c1b8ea79ae049fb0c356c11/13969625380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mabukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/18668927803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=combustion+and+flame+class+8+extra+questions+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000c2fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2FA 11700 bytes
SHA-256: de559e80a94bc75a2ff5fcc0aadac40a73f6565323fd2395b35a6ca285f38a69
font_01_sfnt_off0000de5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f66d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF66D 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 78c31f0219a8c10d9d574af969955bd485aa228ce9ef40b3065bac51195e9050