Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 323e1bce5a112ec3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:08:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 57567786c7bcda777e31f24c679a9766 SHA-1: db4a2a6ed9afb3d18587056046c158e69e09d397 SHA-256: 323e1bce5a112ec3414337cf7b8d98aad9afe931a0c74b7723d1b6d8433b6555
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as link farms. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, indicating a malicious intent to lure users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=countable+and+uncountable+nouns+exercises+upper+intermediate+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607820b310749---31071586499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ser-buk.com/userfiles/file/47785052544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161246be5f1f35---nixufexuledegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/74757644024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/wopuxageladuvolunadinux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/siwevesero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dycelife.com/userfiles/file/rudew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/13365585170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d903cc28cd0---fexazebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/zixopomirogiwujiviloditu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defi128.phpascal.com/userfiles/files/76561644713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/paligivopenodera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decalvanphong.com/img_duhoc/files/guzajuxirev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorestagno.eu/userfiles/files/tomoxajinabumamudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/vatulodewabetezawaposor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/savojoradil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce-mi.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/kenixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/844ffbf4a38ce5b5190780c399ca4f21/nigadatijuzuxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrag7lq0gducq301pl7eqa09b0/39858648354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5706277fb---45080326878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/mifilutawobulizariga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/pesejirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a5229dc37---lerulikonelidok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-14/20210514115159306319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/43664450663.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_off0000e386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE386 18608 bytes
SHA-256: 645c9875f986017f4a5920f46f7e09d3239c72fe81045466219969ff4b5a77b6
font_01_sfnt_off000113a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB8 11156 bytes
SHA-256: e79e6167556ce78caedf0106b197560a58bd74c9e32cb8e42b7ebbd2642f0889