Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23a2a41529f709b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dcc721b4da2fb22aff50054b763b6f4e SHA-1: 3b4a3b3f8d49a3ae439e885fe1725907a5858145 SHA-256: 23a2a41529f709b617a2e6c44df699acfd8297f0be1740160d260da8f90df184
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress uploads, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing or malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics points to a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination of the links.

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=equity+derivatives+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609496da04238---95910734973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97738fac82353e2dd6f338ccac644d45/25563610995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b155e89c5---77571156164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cantinachitarra.it/userfiles/file/xivowube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/supamepawavezemizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c6c3f71c05bf196f6c82226bef3464d/87004599002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d9ea29c4eb---90946067585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/206b885a33b7ecba6ca596fd1eb007d4/veputewelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/pirawafidujijebozigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c438f9a4393292c5ba04064621fd944/jafivuzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tillmanfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b7385abc5988d1ee605fea7695e3d00e/File/gokafowojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korea-labels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogajanivetibutex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppkh.net/userfiles/file/55886770341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pazewureseloketadunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/zajusixanebuwapugobuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/jigusobosixuruluxutexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed5feb2c38b---gimeragu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/80186924478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/nenuxusojeripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/68764499254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/19204168149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/86031698430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d72166eab25---tupaguwodixiregife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/zoxujek.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_off0000db23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB23 10980 bytes
SHA-256: be243c41bcd192c67dbf150bdea49edc3a974d885fdcf4265c4cb924a779bc14
font_01_sfnt_off0000f46d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7F 19364 bytes
SHA-256: cc3921b84df947334871da37162cfa7beafae6ab3c6d69a695ab967d4cfc6885