Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7238bbc96a566d27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.3 KB Created: 2021-08-10 08:01:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 217f6b150f9e24163f54cb4c31ea55ea SHA-1: af813c60d07da1418888fda9f185d36b196e1a82 SHA-256: 7238bbc96a566d27a0615dab9db02d107b66a0a69e93c7a9ab555bf0a6323da0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://high-keenltd.com/userfiles/file/17547203138.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/medazevigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/tajakexedibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/pitadikilaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bb13ab1d8---14012569266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798bb0de4f5---gavigiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3cb81acf6---nozeteraru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/1479909558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/gusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/kanakudotigewotuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lav1p9tjkc8qp2kbvmgnvaj9s/belope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63e196c3bb---lixosikabatutogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/fezopudukimafuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/lajele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700df5dbd02---rinixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodemveenweiden.nl/bodem-veenweiden-img/48907706667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajatusuxenikivarumukona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/89615394949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/32663891372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a112589318b---69749421639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8acc66becbf88f5f92c1a8a97c509c1/vasukalewoxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/62284998713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/68128023992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myexamadvisor.com/fck_uploads/files/nadalebonudosovekugikabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b5f203f19---86430694406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+often+should+i+apply+icy+hotPDF 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_off000124a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A2 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 16da7e23bb3e375cf44db853dde7c47dedeba618933792e3291740ebec43b8c8
font_01_sfnt_off00013dd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DD9 18052 bytes
SHA-256: a72d7441c86584b756a7c388d5211f1a0e45b96f9cca41c3b894a3edfabc37c4
font_02_sfnt_off00016d5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1