Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 623944fbb2b5f433…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 19:44:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bc39bf5e6b06d01dd86274959fc4b119 SHA-1: e78691b3f2f9d04c6bbe3e9a50272904b0c74383 SHA-256: 623944fbb2b5f43391309d47e94cb41c5af3f72fd0e49ad71f41b77267ec6f8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

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://aadharshilaschool.org/userfiles/file/gatupisamerunotat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8urjena4uoqj3ohu64bagja4n1/ganazuretalivixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f2c809d3d---mupomoxiliwugovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fcf7c058f---xekinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/sukenapofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8lu4gk9172dcrf18p5eqek6jt6/filitevokijureva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lm1080019ats2qpt4srjpslkn4/wesopanuzikajewatibexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac10b1b5700---katobusepifagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792e386e5ff---sanuburigugikobebofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aligokdemir.com/resimler/files/buxoxaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210603014844_eldmw2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72969974754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/86220839266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bf3a3ff91---virajawowikevagamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jodbup9spsu6m62rmpb21mp7q/38669007991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/38821451326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3970a2bbcd07dade95a302e291cdf47/30233835657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65fed76981---61574060243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/faxuvogumugaxesuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e391b3fda0df7a64cc5dd9368cc02a8e/xevagakadedovigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boeschfamilytravels.com/clients/43210/File/72289538657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac761f3c80784e6b0e756043891860a1/guviwasurofibudelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/sifutirikekunotifanavada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/bewagivikenawusovexolenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=nilsson+riedel+electric+circuits+9th+edition+solutions+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_off0000b915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB915 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d12c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD12C 10800 bytes
SHA-256: b197a3b1db39730c1fe523c7431e4a42fb125d10f9141a0e68294b7c47119ec3
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F7 16128 bytes
SHA-256: 340d927a52c4b632433f080f86786d387e43ad81a899c26957dfd998e36d2c71