Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23ac5cb93d542147…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-08-13 12:37:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4070a847d278049fe9d17107f3d3605b SHA-1: a19c647770407725de8f9915e47d8eb73dcb816b SHA-256: 23ac5cb93d542147f45e0d97affaad5f86a47ffd6af15064eecece240712f6f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=farmacos+para+el+corazon+opie PDF link annotation
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ikmj6q7p4bm7rie5chedgj5s/65078566090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/zovunegemisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1621102787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/20862801216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f8vjfotqcd8cop77ishtqc0pm/44547797678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f713f642ef3---jatuvekekixoxewabamoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61205602571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840284c31cc---91843283320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/375431268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdf27df082---dovututemixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/76075214790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d3cc0d59e---junejiwafijikojorijowaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40940708566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/56292638171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/vawilotofafijapegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/7960958632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096835c9da80---81935350826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/ritelajesediro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/24528547713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608378d80eb80---7727067359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2ce7f42f54---59783379812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba39afaf0f9---37337693005.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_off0001033e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1033E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B55 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 2b0c0e0ac21a526899080b98716f036fc18f4c2c21d92aebe18aad684dc435dc
font_02_sfnt_off00013314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13314 18600 bytes
SHA-256: fe4f1fdab2990d2773eed47e70ebc6ded9878155faaf31364dc8d77de70c3665