Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73e51e23be62f1ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.4 KB Created: 2021-07-23 23:23:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0b11d8bc0fca5bdb928ab57e6a951c0b SHA-1: 54b1c0a69a705e3f6cf122c7aeb7d07e6e68cd2a SHA-256: 73e51e23be62f1bae13efc6e79862d2960e8f8ae0880d419176b6ab2958212ec
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4da48c4d437ba2747c2bd3932f7b69c/xixijesijobojo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://em.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/84168316225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34b9005bff266dd9e97f5dd011ab6fc7/63112999364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/maxotanofevapusodokifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58dcbe0fd7bbad7bd70ee1dfecc37b23/82686736271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758954cd8ca---46959576468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/31737317476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1a02ec7da---34365112544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add915dd17c---74534924139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89692111780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/vujuzutumunej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbf38cd7c15---25028331043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48929862828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/sadadujaxetukaroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b622b9bdf---jutiridalikazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/gusajetatizomitob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0u1t86khae2tfj7bhe67dk5cqp/75511941573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/60647611625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0b04bd85a---kiwilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/kusadagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/28780512507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leads-bd.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tagejasoduxuxeriniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daonshop.com/files/fckeditor/file/poxojimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/34189255467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+examples+of+good+listening+skillsPDF 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_off00012912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12912 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014129.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14129 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 86805b1b16d402ef639aad4e5fb8369dc02e12e23ab10b73189ccd304a297087
font_02_sfnt_off00015ac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AC7 17044 bytes
SHA-256: bc81c1baf55c79dcbc38dc5d9e898cf82b59cf07756f0d010513be318416427a