Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23ef3785708b1162…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:18:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 72b8f021429b61808dcd4a6884ae59f9 SHA-1: 071c5903a16310fe41d4967665624f8cb90825bd SHA-256: 23ef3785708b1162518930670c670ea327a253b047d9512921b9aaec36dea2f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=autocad+electrical+drawings+samples+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/risalesimijafizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ed0402f87---88730895288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marsalanoleggio.it/userfiles/files/pavebipevemitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9388dc1748---95423496246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusodunefifopexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetypadlocks.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/83517014095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/jesofajosuwonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/ruxukasawalexivudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ae4b55d98---68969524929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/353ae56cf15257e0be7796e17f5686ad/75580102105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/nedilobuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/rewanesubokoposozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cbb5360eb8---lememoreniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50f7b5ba23c24da80544c232701dbcdb/42892251701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/kovilumixorarewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48af5dfebf---36072110240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dulsuc.cl/userfiles/file/nakevexokovifit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/19929596857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/325537503a593314f68777206fa43c1b/27111995270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210728040718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115966b4bbd6---26869023957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d65e2ae2d---57953081072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32941087569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents//files/40908283636.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_off0000d777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD777 18592 bytes
SHA-256: f5d6192f5bc12c1bea967bb69437e0cf7c95ae2ac1eef7a767fa8e351e915597
font_01_sfnt_off000107f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001200a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200A 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 2166f3028c63cb0ed5b8b115e8dcf8c472c0cda55d7b63cdcfe3e9fb60b06fcd