Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23ec83bc27c25475…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:52:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1f10b731d2812c397d64ec640c825298 SHA-1: e23f71b8b5d2dec1da0940bfc7992b3926c1b077 SHA-256: 23ec83bc27c25475bcae003bcb83316454e4e7aa31d7816507ac5c3708d632af
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing a link farm strategy to direct users to compromised websites. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs users to download an archive, with the password provided within the document itself, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=malela+jiv+gujarati+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f168a86528---45459272220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaparatt.com/images/File/98189271185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/pepulobajiwemapagabalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/retewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/muwowadotirawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e8c751266bc8a9a379579f741166346/18310334775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hophungvietnam.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/29977047101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357d88b70d6---45666685627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicareyou.com/userfiles/file/15847373243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/67498648736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.com/userfiles/files/debufalike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/24764297679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/koxoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021091011333696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109090350179783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/92670340474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/40636164120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printsolutions.printsolutions.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/matijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rmkljc0o9molkarshhmjkrtdm/ruboretubusulutuvajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/3408917520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doggystylzgrooming.com/admin/photos/file/89409408617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364d59e161e---30003036353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/68928826678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alident.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/47120786128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/82869342477.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_off0000cd51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD51 11112 bytes
SHA-256: c2fed8a37e90428702e6ad0b07943b45b3924869446d5775553a62022634a792
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF09 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 74bbf439d8fdd4bbe63bb750fb71af1f3060be741699545415cb00b015aff4a3