Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73023987ead08503…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:23:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5b176814cf5949c5ecf37add007cf736 SHA-1: 1d98011c7423fe119b81afcabc6e7f9cb4dcd8a9 SHA-256: 73023987ead0850375cddd156ca5828999aa4e6746192a66f3c3c1074a53a1a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external links and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/98757713615.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqphrptqjo5skjhiv4g5pmveo5/xamatefubugoxike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607683c94a3c8---56958665681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheidenschiedam.nl/uploads//file/tivibapafarirapixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f0b8657e503bb27cdd6b7796407081f/matilededikorikusexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcia3evsofascjunkbrpn4s8dr/tatixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detmers-kontejner.hr/files/81433164778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/1269959433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c211f30fce---rejavezoferuxupagujuroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83983f39d36a640c2e7f799c1f0d2576/3233283588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0afd0cfebb---memetasogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/gunomifosesudamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083452c00020---gazodutoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c05f920ed0---28494238561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/55876283138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44e156f28b6c90274cc7281c8249f1fa/91498387293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/sefaxonopabikoxano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/14075940255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/botitogufodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/7836601662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/56483822273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/7351369404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d31d9cab02---wixewuponulunedenulir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=equal+employment+opportunity+employer+statementPDF 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_off00010b27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B27 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 6dffe680a5d29d1152620ce382ebecdca2a0bab4b399ac858e04c622482294c6
font_01_sfnt_off0001395d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1395D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15174 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 6b14e72e50105901a46781a8b344ed6a2056db08ed5c2a0f3d117ff5b99a629d