Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23998eb70898154f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:08:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2abd05b773650f19c11b1ba63099ecc0 SHA-1: b5e2ed94e2fe9c0b0fd29c348a799da08cf13ac6 SHA-256: 23998eb70898154f5af46401031cd4692b1770f389551910d5413502a02cb236
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=on+which+phones+can+you+play+fortnite PDF link annotation
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/ruwutalajotupora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b9980bf0ac---29927122847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandp-engineering.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44145463443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printrun.nl/userfiles/files/vadukokidofifabagugutusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff9e9ee7a6---36118200556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenosada.sk/editor_uploads/files/27573770489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e2f0e4c7db---60309271639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b302a88dc74fd0f2285b33809469178e/sefotenejagexanidelab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13055730702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knx-shop.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jetat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systemsbiology.at/uploads/assets/file/rutuzidufijegerotujupati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358539b6c1e---87281521251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14591790629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fowarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa2933d95a---86921550060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82417364725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/banotuzekitadobopogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordineveterinarivenezia.eu/userfiles/files/53835092085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/puzusemamurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416237722ce---73127489203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/files/81720934380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/fojadatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomas-zigon.de/images/file/sukuzirabozotuzatibidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/37111201272.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_off0000ea23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA23 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 630c9d1285f971ed85b256ba79b0a2ba11d16715f01832b054d27c0e8f4920fc
font_01_sfnt_off00010367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10367 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 6048f543fc978f2474c74aa8d56165680e23e7faeff200f3e9d4b89a80d448c8
font_02_sfnt_off00013287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13287 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1