Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23cfd6da15613034…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 18:05:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4b588d86d2c262239783b45c01893dba SHA-1: 27d72f61a0da6b81ac56412e601cdf0708e157c5 SHA-256: 23cfd6da156130344390a1c147a22a4f3ec8a0a3b3042c40b638a8b63c2764c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of compromised links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d37a40a50---53155083860.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/20352355562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/8191531605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/romazolanusovulubalinuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e54b38134---38055535516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db41d5e5ad---13553785501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98ca5e562b---jepigafupemegejenaxadava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/64178455022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/87841557323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ef44388fdd746219f2fa18c3ed1dc0/dawebuxigajasuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/gijebomogetudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///rafodagizopetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/lojasajixetumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775eb6c1444---niguvimixiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4c9a3f260f4ac5605dad1b3151931cb/43358994066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fba858c85---joxoganema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/zunonexajelerusuxosikogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a84a8b8fd055a4eb5d98ec34c8b0a9/voleripigezekunopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da81edbe62e8308f9d42a034a8d5634f/29277577806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d07269bbf19612305a1a51564c37de3b/22228756895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/94304058069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/noganapanejaporikeganarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cv0niam45s9ojoe4rpr90f3k7q/23002701464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3193127992---86281171052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/mudokozujemite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+frame+talePDF 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_off000111ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111EE 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 0a11a357490bf38dde97f7113c338c5d7528578c925f09ab2362e99f7ea0e353
font_01_sfnt_off000128f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128F2 17572 bytes
SHA-256: caa62729c10c8fb0d74e9e85c0eede093badee5d7a40ef0daaccddea0a15e70a
font_02_sfnt_off00015683.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15683 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1