Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ae23ea6f4da184d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:14:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d57ba23366ce610248d962c5300fb083 SHA-1: fc260c9c8bcc0094a8aa937680d4327c585c42ac SHA-256: 2ae23ea6f4da184d492e5812c4fa3723cbc207cb30409398578f11c37aa2df9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver malicious payloads or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/ruzilisogowuxumasuse.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dirazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rokakisreunion.com/clients/a/a8/a85ca1e4cfc2bb88d767af442173b437/File/75830829841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c40aab481b4---sikafubelopubugopikarunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30053659f94465dd84c813100701ea84/fuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609002413a630---pepuvotejirovenoxaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kigakozijitewodizetafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wolfgang-photography.com/userfiles/files/ridasewitevomufidovezisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/xasolavojika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ea828lvbfdr1p1cs7m7naj4q4/5633304069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2dcd4tf6q1qar93ibp4fj2m95/dozunafeburomibukoxowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/81988528321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8kv25q1in0cdivil0l5qj9ahr/rojeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/24228515340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/lewiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/gabuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunakanyarfesto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21314573591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/nasojeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/23128749379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97749fe4d2805f8c0a80714f87d14cb2/69480398526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/50575842092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shibbirs.com/media/files/91020033615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismoilnoceto.com/userfiles/files/51368659202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cgrhjdkcvb5d7npmkjkg85voh/32182989503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a681a51f16---53359093701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+dsm+v+completo+pdfPDF 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_off0000ce9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B3 10832 bytes
SHA-256: a21e47f3480342c0c0738a24d23df0d7da3680fc159240acb7fe674720d53184
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF9B 19376 bytes
SHA-256: 29ae8b0337e62f746cb7573108a50255cb235e6cd71c2414e1adc3f6a5110f67

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