Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23fca957d1d0c354…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 11:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5933c33af3300a09bedbb52f5d243101 SHA-1: 7c29f2ecb3dbcfccca539c79e3fcc76290d96a3f SHA-256: 23fca957d1d0c35440e683c3d42948edf9783df6ac6f1ff6cb27eadf5ee5529e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://satnamunicipalcorporation.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49477916416.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/70822065926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingeriedediva.com/UploadFile/file/2021091409482773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/zodopinapufeximolutodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341088c0d25---22166985056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutakorejiragurufapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/13175248572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-a0dcf319a153.breakthroughsport.com/userfiles/files/zonusuxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8200dd4d1b87b4309be4b2f8fbd5332e/gunuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210905053050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agilesolutions.in/uploads/50256651280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5080faf747349143cb0b1ab4c07b02/dutuvowumoredeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2a5127ea3---77223416218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sts-cct.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/nopazirejokig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/totu0pp2tforaa02ki05uehfo7/lusedatozudabenavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atavio.ru/files/file/bofirefazatamitavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/81618161490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/21009866961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popmetre.com/news/files/gizogamigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fikszo-whc.com/userfiles/files/gulufazubasamimoxekoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/40506492928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetalk.jp/app/webroot/img/fckfiles/file/lonalawilifetejazaferi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=hand+book+drivers+licensePDF 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_off0000b3ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC16 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 7517a9469b84d42b0e3bbbec39ccccc4afb12cece90c336585b864626e5bb1a0
font_02_sfnt_off0000e42e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE42E 16032 bytes
SHA-256: 3f66c6002f7b7a11f7c9f6fea236a48e6856931e5cc1878840e3597c136f1c22