Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 232c8f86ce22f304…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:10:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 76c0d7978661820bdfeab78f2acefb33 SHA-1: 7f7bb2e0062f7a4969ab7609729edd668999c431 SHA-256: 232c8f86ce22f304b64f24e6b8c9c7d2ff0083ce4f3e86d2e521403b656d99ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated high maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. These links likely serve as redirects to phishing sites or malware downloaders.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/pesureravegobiritezaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/mumijazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/nesiwode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f5nlf55p8sh4dgqs2u3lqn39v/boxiwonorulemunizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/dawozakilexifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfc920e287---kisisepivusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/gilexopibijopanapune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shhs69reunions.com/clients/e/e9/e92da0bc0099326815942f81a5c18dfc/File/kafekedadete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ba2d27fc0---zotobalivemipibesadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210619150702135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/370240030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4ba0736fd---99604346617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c6967a461---83570722300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9v5l5iok1mdp25novn9esqau8s/19267303755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b9352806b6849ddb77b44d1142308bc/mawoluziwadedenebelevoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucnhacuagio.com/upload/files/76813767425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/el744ocal795nruiqk9mnakto2/5341554717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/15305389327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d314ce4504---5771642447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608afb19a965f---gibedefaluwivupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bb53dd2edbb4da07d494fc37c45406b/xawixevikurexazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ab05af82474dc65f5edfcd92af35dbe/lanutoziwefajanonawefabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/zadamuxavokeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egf.tw/test2/images/file/63771207642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/99775472151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29c49649f85f38578dd81df639fb0644/fumesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cfo+scale+upPDF 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_off0000efd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD4 10212 bytes
SHA-256: d1dca189afac769c91b407757e5d59ef9b11144f544fa418b51a40d21424aeb5
font_01_sfnt_off000106ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EE 18532 bytes
SHA-256: 0b28db415e38c1cb7588cc212f4cad799b6d8234b63118b1a21ceb52905b82c8
font_02_sfnt_off0001349a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1349A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1