Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23f2e6036a5880d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-10-08 00:05:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f8501f6c429a6ccafc1bbd432e052d9d SHA-1: b217e9579e2763fa4e44de6c5c09987e528aefc3 SHA-256: 23f2e6036a5880d99223ee8ae5d0bad2ad2b247d26aa7c319c4edf7e5ec0293e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to various external websites. Several heuristics indicate these links are associated with compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=treatment+of+pyelonephritis+in+males PDF link annotation
    • https://luatkhangthai.vn/upload/fck/file/ditonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-saty.cz/gais/image/file/79063739172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80385570479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/dogevodabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sssmri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kjphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/xedilamugevuwigel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/dusozelizidole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonhanint.com/uploadpic/sun/files/202109100803439860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marine-inox.com/i/File/61985478877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/44521569020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b31438450e---6500428520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibunajcc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomesefividawesuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/48960589176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/80955449132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140906be903c---dugatibipamulopuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/23597720460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153e2111231a---gamatunokolekipodijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piataafacerilor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zukigezurorekidusexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highspiritsmusic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gapovugapunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bresky.cz/res/file/6213516220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/1889146643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/74438218133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/70056609325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202109042250245695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/96806390249.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_off0000c230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC230 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA42 15916 bytes
SHA-256: 70a404193e8224efd73122d9aed6a1723b6e696f001cbf05935eff3c8d80e993
font_02_sfnt_off0001023d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1023D 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 259608f0c7f6d19e2e99495698c391e8284d5519b61cf68edcbfbae8a68f1a81