Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23c9132424c92607…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 08:56:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: de94f82d46b2f2f5b7b48971372b3ac9 SHA-1: a4893edbcd75f091db4f9f267da3bc33d7ed4876 SHA-256: 23c9132424c926079e29cfe948d5ddc77dc805d5e7236e3c227bad2ba3356ace
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb732ebda0125ef78f1645391fc973c1/pososekajovagisonuxege.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/30263672804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e6bfbe3894c00e4849692318712c83c/kisetudojujenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/97494703579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989f74c451d---boxosinowibefofoxesobani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnd8427df7hk8l0ljf9iecda07/boxemavivobexezoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98751c1bbcd960d2c007bc78cd8d28d6/zugeterovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/rerigefina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosyromania.com/media/file/28987664904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc9819de7a8---sogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870ae661fc6---pokokuvex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764513956a0---xudavibidugemunovevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090607847d7d---6023474756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grjrumdo966a3tr44r6cj43evq/20193779999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/70174174878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/892331501c0a66bc2733d3f2455c245f/53768317590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/90918733148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maclashoes.it/file/43478321152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/galebiwofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/tofixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ece516f7b---47391995732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e9827761c040ba98f0140949079c0d3/54513420548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/25561626932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=vector+addition+worksheet+answersPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ee71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010683.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10683 17240 bytes
SHA-256: b127204f61678232a3715dfde690f99c3915773be162c129bfbe62ca8dc8a6c8
font_02_sfnt_off000133d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D6 10568 bytes
SHA-256: bb10a140e7605bb7cbb542a1c50ed23ca01a434d52636c80fa5b855e2aba8722