Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23866d85b7f2644d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:36:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b3a46476440bc11f5e3f7a99d339b962 SHA-1: d19d738af7d50da1dd92f0b8b3c7be1feecc4be0 SHA-256: 23866d85b7f2644d782c0a4eb45af7b7c2a8baf669ee8072c0911ee62c58c939
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+easily+deceived+crossword+clue PDF link annotation
    • http://ccapostolicchurch.org/clients/1/19/19d200bce63520a637954fb60b162b1a/File/xuxafajapakisezefugozemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/430d037dcca33134cc24eafff443a82e/82427067845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca21158351---kabofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd16f26dc41---zakosegujosofusagepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607697fc687a2---93210955974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/nijarisegojokatulalofano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/49772169816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d835b364e5---wejutoziven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8ee49b358---33150282092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/navozolazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2f111423a0f426f1d32b298b4a9d99f/79069528339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/numuzupedadipibawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db0ddgrim1eeh0hpil64af5997/1304750396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/gonubasudejelakukupir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d05b12d7e3---tonosijusirusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/bonomovofezafasukixulefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/79577072245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/60939757136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d15smddf1iqtdg9q1622houj8/16344203933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202106270553388295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75a4b16ab105d3630f46f5bda7ff59b3/48122964121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984fed20c83---pubigexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3eac59b123---wevow.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d49c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD49C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAE 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 4a97191d6328c98e2208ae487e6c3c8dc22ccf9d27dce095377140ec9a03b967
font_02_sfnt_off00011d08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D08 10656 bytes
SHA-256: af7eb5cef43334ba1faa7b0f2ad1f06051599f67790071b8079ab20b0b07fb57

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