Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23d06b3184661727…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:05:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b841eb8fcae8918fb85104048416ac66 SHA-1: c271d130ba931b850b5c7be2125e24ecd8379fc0 SHA-256: 23d06b31846617279c3b439e4f8381cf13db210243f9b64036bdf4859d89586e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a strategy to obscure the true destination by using many distinct hosts and UTM parameters.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=qualification+certification+and+credentialing+personnel+are+part+of+which+nims+management+characteristics
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b90db1aa3f4---96650693468.pdf
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/juvuregop.pdf
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ps9il1i4uci70ug6inmufe55f4/28486445148.pdf
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3e01a0b068973182eab72f638ee04f5/wazofumobulojutelamukote.pdf
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/13419430027.pdf
    • http://oldtimerclub-thueringerberg.at/images/file/43956333405.pdf
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/fifijur.pdf
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/komubi.pdf
    • https://mygenius.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wixusazusapebugaxomet.pdf
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c02f57be940de0fcb75aa333915e5bc/nexaderuwojojetowi.pdf
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/1734983893.pdf
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14033487c1---26443150682.pdf
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck2cm72gsb5eofebbl8le69iov/pokiwa.pdf
    • https://anjingliar.com/contents//files/wiseritodekaji.pdf
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/15693236716.pdf
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/44515629815.pdf
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/150703558287.pdf
    • http://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/13092906913.pdf
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/78817642804.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4so1ll3o8ckorfj0a6iqnp7f2/93712767251.pdf
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/33455298826.pdf
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/xitupin.pdf
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/271lup5hv0pllft2ojhrbl1j20/xefizuzesibenisaz.pdf
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/46352227239.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6f6.bin
6f9da28f5bda35f1d9f1bca5fc6da5703a7d8b01e529592abcc7fb89e2930d92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F6 11312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001014a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001195c.bin
f2f286bee55ffa8bd514d6ace73d947377bfdf6ad8b916f4adc799007d9f269d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1195C 16600 bytes