Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23298a928cc084b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-21 07:24:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d597e630d333c5298f2a140f2bffb3c6 SHA-1: bbf9cf07b2afe5b7f377f4bbccb64ccc9da1929c SHA-256: 23298a928cc084b40e26df91d9975ce5151ec095bf5418e352a43658c3ec9f19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a common tactic of using documents as bait to lead users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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 https://folklorebridge.eu/uploads/pictures/files/78473111243.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1ec73f0b50---68402121439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/vodavixejugekodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechnews.cz/userfiles/files/pekavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d947ecd12---baxibewuvabijijuweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/jibajivuwabijuzoruzopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/lafumasedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b33cbf275---53289793677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/20308409387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafunozadenosiwijupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ga3c8i0mgn0nlmg174d8jr82pm/88671861895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b73dc99bd7db0e21d43c00da74b842ad/86489830548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021061210583970554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/49779977573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f60f05482---14954609068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oi17s0fte3sn052g9l3poehk33/60257052177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/16335643434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--pssa17sw71b.tw/upimages/files/gepixuzaroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/wegivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tokyomagic.jp/images/library/File/20043750343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49sfiagv2pmsepb8mj61qvfnp2/43569968630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a931c3d7091---77996329185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/sedafalubonolikilarivozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29bfcad7dd---84193551477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/49304731094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882dfdb9405---6453065758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=music+no+bad+wordsPDF 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_off00010b98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B98 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 698935dfdba937a3cbbd0715cc157fec6c7235dec48a0568875f862dfcca70f0
font_01_sfnt_off00013a9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A9B 10408 bytes
SHA-256: bcc3e6eeb1918fc78d50c21cc19b899cb647bb40be53b40479fb3ca2eaefd1bf
font_02_sfnt_off00015255.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15255 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1