Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23fc57fca1461903…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-07-27 19:46:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: e8980666ec0d726028aec64d0d139a37 SHA-1: 7f7b0323cfb95cd2d4890d3ace2387cba15a3290 SHA-256: 23fc57fca1461903e5a898c87b9fa74c8424faa31bfa3d9e9d4ac2b65d189349
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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 http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080106d3d3fc---42635975696.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pd6jqvpbvrn26kobbkmeeeicc1/vavitunuvowuwonuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/81818862448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/93802714415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a712f5cded---xopijereriluzikunosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/pubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swadeministries.com/pastor-sammy/upload/imagecontent/file/silibumamujam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cab1390887b---voduvixiruleles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a123d258951---42298137283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalyanestate.com/userfiles/file/nomerefejosorexujoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ee48cbf75f870947baa20ed3f93e0ea/65178629302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210625202302_kinzgk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796c5d362d6---jekasatesuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba9f43cb05---31799540609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b435278b67323777da9ecff77db4437d/nizilezirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/vitogupumagexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eglehs4k6di2j48ckr5mqpeesg/66095601820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nazeputusedasudonode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f335e2e06---timokimolazowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pveq7sb7pela616qa890pnlq7a/39596495619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d774a9719ed82ac68aacbe9d110b90a/zaxuvovivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraucheta.ru/uploads/file/94566677382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32b653309c56a35a1a78bbc5c3719db6/jutepadunufegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantomauro.it/userfiles/files/83340494359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/83083832713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=nexar+nexs1+dash+cam+reviewPDF 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_off000107d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D8 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 3cae532c9aa241ad44f84add22a4b491c461fa7f98063350521b84cd627a7499
font_01_sfnt_off0001201a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1201A 19412 bytes
SHA-256: 8f8c7d1f413ce50fc4543b6cc2f272e5094ed02a2de887fb02a33a026c8a6d7d
font_02_sfnt_off0001534f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1534F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1