Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23f6cb8764a848ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:29:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 290cfab3aac5f1d7d66b16faa4d0bf43 SHA-1: b373530d222c71159311598e624c758309e1fe64 SHA-256: 23f6cb8764a848aba97c07245b175104e838eb5b5039e94d0dabcd8df62ef787
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to download further malicious content or to phish user credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c687f60ea2763815036fc3c2ebb8ef76/66398628100.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dobski.pl/userfiles/file/54599481600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb48e056949---51005629191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608770fa6008e---29586195092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/882cf77c7d853a5cd9b1602cdeabb3ba/5031182099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845b437b436---fakojezedodibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078089884d82---fijobusojize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dc95c13cf7e0908b50d04ed070fb92a/vavinononisokomiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rintoyo.com/userfiles/file/wuxemefizepefobuxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a73b6823ba718490d18908f11025de6/59600639068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bukogarux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607497e0182bb---tigetibowafolupibaraxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghocasiochinhhang.net/uploads/userfiles/file/37274704913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/68624056406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/5152453108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.come/file/58383534083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/78757273172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/zixaduzutatibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094348d011c6---449942135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094855fada83---doridap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e17915a53d---51165142337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776736084bc---64179519797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a9906a64a---bemabanerefibufagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/59176198708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlpeed0ibm4aecfoplf81onp4c/34012332441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/49666461351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=dimensional+analysis+worksheet+%232+answersPDF 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_off0000d8c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C0 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 464850d25ee3a099bd69db95505b4727673a4ea41eee5a412d3ad040b0592176
font_01_sfnt_off0001069b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069B 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 7a2789a597327e980670388c7d52df5403f29d6090fd52edd8c6df5b108987b6
font_02_sfnt_off00011eec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1