Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23dc9f68ffb756f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:12:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ff59425d2f126682db5fb1b62a18be62 SHA-1: 485a6f808a9b66de71ba664406f04124c5b23fe2 SHA-256: 23dc9f68ffb756f92985e029348bf3183bea1a2fb6ae0ab91e1a6a6137248412
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that lead to potentially compromised WordPress sites or phishing lures. The presence of multiple external URIs and the detection of a link farm on disposable hosting indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+dino+game+hacked+version PDF link annotation
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d43c02141765b83fc38920dba3896519/99841040829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/584eb41aa05b501ceb937e8ce39c3748/mufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bff58d22c---vukivuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/20603787472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e3bd7fb9305a481c00bda5492ca3ff4/vuwagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983031b888b---71689806550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qa42laba2imcjqsjfr81tjeup3/lozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dfvluh62ppeopucndlfem2g12/fipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fefb3baa01---66219475527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/masojiroguzefigomososeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/16737268889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/67510496724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ccbf6c77b---desejoloxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/12697706348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/82624416069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b50e40c040a01150a079cdd3b2709443/63785503588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f20e0mos8trer1ff85gevoevp2/vixagirojorevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/siwugotokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d21843072---sejebalanaxagajatawazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092605a11db1---xusavixesasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a604221507a1f5f9544b98d0542c257e/42297614624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92km60o4jiadb6ig7r5chfh3us/40514203545.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_off0000b1b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1B5 10860 bytes
SHA-256: e41eea6137c8639280b602d946606277a7d35cafebc4dbc5ce914cc1b04d928b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA6D 15276 bytes
SHA-256: bb3d587af33069fde3a46e579607e3871ce8ed38248ec8de9a1760b35fb7295f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1