Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23651c6d69e2d447…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:13:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 087c32c9751c04037ed0c91b2e191152 SHA-1: 64eb1339d40fbf7ffc2a3afa5e384900b2a8d582 SHA-256: 23651c6d69e2d447a9d93eb42efbb7cc037ed6cd7fa4888b807416a9746ceb41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely intended to host phishing content or further malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mcat+physics+practice+test+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff7d3f506c8---vidofipegudilorazutawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/948a1b1483f74532a9ce61b9ec9d3528/rekejefizupaxofune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab65218c803---tavoxutilojitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3585e32697---56942470365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18489251649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710ab743e98---63628374542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cf80c250b629501d154ea952027effb/zoxajamifamatomelanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/gexozifopabine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/zomuxasotega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/zutimudazumuvuligogekut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/pimivividisuzugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qhd7r2uroen496a6rogcgno8v4/5886151336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajkylevne.cz/UserFiles/File/36905774950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/ferojonigukireseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971b02e85fc---71489282930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/bolifujijikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/88141058725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23c96f88aa6e5bed1cc1f642dfc604ef/tuxebipabino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/sotesalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d538d15778---9568351523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dojoworivogezowiloxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0924055971.com/uploads//files/202108041116245858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/piziguzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/wiviwivofugosolufuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010fe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE9 19100 bytes
SHA-256: 2873d60de66d64ac806b186ffacf22c9b47657740151d565859db3ebb3f1b48a
font_01_sfnt_off00014151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14151 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015968.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15968 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 3babc23ca83dc84e4f0356faae2c1524a5caf0f2588390c1b9752b02d7ea0ae9