Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 823163319085cf3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:03:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b44d5f300f5af6741b010b56e99b02d6 SHA-1: d82311e0d8a6307485fc25428ccd199ea8561e9e SHA-256: 823163319085cf3bdff87a6d793f8af26683874344e7c6e5edda1fe1f84427ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/popet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b5fdbe6825c127f03c1b44fe1c0ac6d/rewubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmjwarrickhudsonfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/9b/9be434dcd9982d5451de1b36a82eb828/File/63200570857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87bdb578c93b09d0efc48196caba4c99/25184996033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.net/scauserfiles/files/38350659343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23748ba60a8a6b1dca9c642d874ee742/zukapomexetujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/20075589988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8f22a9d67---5681973029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608861ddaf697---xakibilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/41257730219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huh.hu/UserFiles/File/fisatutaxalepikapobika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/56764174681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrestoration.net/home/apf/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25105107077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjflius3909uhrb3l05soglltd/tumivovigipigebereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430142841541441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/87326596110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/933998d774e3b70e00008af35ad15887/79284408872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be79bbf169---74431799812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/mexosowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.org/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/95012162003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaeb9cc53ce---pezijezolaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01qms046b0j1m2nrp3rvotunk3/9190761234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/56746080197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08b9345bd6---95497510816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b203476de---58602624819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=gas+and+vomitingPDF 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_off0000ebbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBC 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 07a49c158b9f38798a7d14506adc1d75e0ab4a266087958173d506e20412480a
font_01_sfnt_off000116e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012efb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EFB 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 22d8205b17046c23a5a9eb8128399b8bbbbea7faa8140c643353d28a06265c39