Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23604573c2ee13e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 11:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 86ab855919d8f58b97d7e293d7e5ff35 SHA-1: 1f1b2377b845cd995039c9759a75cf0218a843e3 SHA-256: 23604573c2ee13e871f4ea81b8aede1db90c7c87657ca01b86d349cc4e9f035b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a QR code lure further indicates an attempt to direct users to malicious external content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/wulixaloniwukefuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cictc8p30k3q1eacou0qvaoij6/13436135078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_33BC3FCF2275C209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/gesafafosajabenarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ombs.ru/uploads/files/vejunenatukorukixikepokoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://densayhongngoai.com/uploads/userfiles/file/lanatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/54395383030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/78520464691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanyosushiglendora.com/uploads/files/kejipiwarekiwali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rokibukona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/mavegazolode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tisupipagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.madiran-cruduparadis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15849321982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/xajakejapanokeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vindindex.nl/images/uploads/namimezusinemeromunuduwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/jafavukexexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelifelesson.net/home/tappingchanges/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11170974090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/sowujenujubevegero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bidexamobedifalowevanupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132dbac61cc6---78101791175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveworldtogether.com/datas/files/pukazakilibigalixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3840043e3ba248a4785cae017d51e0f2/tejezukiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitekinfostructures.com/userfiles/file/10149827044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=beyblade+dragoon+qr+codePDF 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_off0000c528.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC528 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 62fc66af7830196caeb55ca754824da0bee9814dfb404d4d0d83413a1bdc9b3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010af9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF9 10640 bytes
SHA-256: e2eb5ee26b7799e22de81820465402bcc0e4fa92fef8b422e9a23c17a34b96a9