Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 423cace21e39e925…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-06-13 05:22:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 80b0efefc2badc7b12c19dfd92b9feb6 SHA-1: 571399752de7669b325bf5ed2a98234df761e8ff SHA-256: 423cace21e39e925d37d7ce90273193b7f8b4d7e1dd51b608b9fc9ad654242fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of URLs like 'https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+beatles+abbey+road+rar' indicates an attempt to lure users with search result-like content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+beatles+abbey+road+rar PDF link annotation
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989b24f2e577736658363903f7a24e64/43342894753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b787672fc17---jelazipup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/luzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/kijazavegapeguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/21242832987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7u3u9377or2olllo18713oau00/76430489720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efb1c0d420f86851ba29a9b7fb588763/2512902286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdc2aff8d5d207466032c834132afc36/pumugelujalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed1984e14f---lifisefalij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn3hcqhao1mtbd5c0phn61ugti/40051982019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c09db434bbf---jixufowagodazugugazezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e6be5b2de---48698347342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/29888641526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundreaming.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be1813713a57a3a21b41d885994f6d8c/nasipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d30cc36fa4---14217100610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fqr6k02j4sjkh65aeud2ng5ilm/pegedufizazugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1E 5104 bytes
SHA-256: 11840d5ee9d54246b876b9f7c96e22a39ecd2207571bb851a2bf1145a6774cfd
font_01_sfnt_off00010b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B71 11504 bytes
SHA-256: f6b58029f36b68c1731c72a96b4194f881446264b163d540e479a1b2113b0553