Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23d1f4f8497e13b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:35:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 688778824e01b7cd64f2fe505fbefb7e SHA-1: a1c1667fa419966b7328612a9948d83279f72cc7 SHA-256: 23d1f4f8497e13b60515c6d3d08b21b7766ecf3a9c49fdfa8858df06b6bd8a74
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to external sites. Several of these links point to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a malicious intent to distribute further payloads or engage in phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/31266058972.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84f5c7a4f88ae68d886b39aa31dae822/jesaxovewilatutumibuzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.conectadoscomdeus.tv/arquivos/file/96960086461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e0bf574e058934aee7531f249e35bd/sakegatevapuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/dojedemababefalozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themetamorphoseprogram.com/userfiles/file/52589560791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diamond-marketing.cz/soubory/tegobumonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vb6uu6lldebd044e6rdurg8mhl/82845825556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op9pvcve0jh9o6tk0idma93v41/31827294713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/velobule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20a94de5f8735e251251f25848c79137/3594880947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210708081741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/sipexajudabolugonegefije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e13735b7e7---76424875850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidramaco.com/files/files/vudabujifixalutipeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210626091159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/23414619571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d3dcd9ddf---84495096669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e425315261---devijuwakabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nulaxikup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/16617246582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fb5ae62265---maxokusufodolajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115b3b47e0fe---67397629308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapabzenec.cz/obrazky/files/xogazavuzolasavow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=janeway+immunobiology+9th+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d382.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD382 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 0911e914093bdca10f0ec3699af04570e59a7b359beec68e16e2fc74af464333
font_01_sfnt_off000102ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B16 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 81135de8aab54f1baee1f2bfe60ebc693f90ed0cb2f5bc63961d00d43137cc23