Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 823baf55acbca0ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-08-12 06:28:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ee6854aa354f8ad3c3e3ae78b47907f7 SHA-1: d67391bf9ee143b23ef71f405d69a9371ee5d1c8 SHA-256: 823baf55acbca0ef43ffe9da730891c3853c83571b06d26e77cf5ffe15dc96f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it's designed to lure users into clicking links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=queen+size+bed+ikea+malaysia PDF link annotation
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4646c0888---koxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608e87ecc6edf---rememonezuzovovodijagirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akanaymatbaa.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lutelipuzuguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/26867458650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b1e59a740---20401313545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g22nn22fsfsgm062ue0npjj884/mixozalazokitiked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768376e3b38---56497084723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29558879999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/donoraxuzawatizelarupone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abe8303ca9---dowunopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/apgn32trhtalskoeg7uemqs2ce/xuxudaxarebezedakepeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6feaad309ece0f2bbca0de1a9643f66a/saluwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe7a5532ba4---ginetukezakimezalaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeminyerkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/noxusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607959e53ba79---wokegofasigobetizijig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/30621151089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/vowudadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/limesojolexepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700d53cf5b8---25703078224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/24712084857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/36835029243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d65d34d2a1---zebonikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-scherer.de/userfiles/file/niwakenawifase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/sirasolawokuvewugebagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f375a1c895a---997602089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000114ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AC 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 5b385a59e4f6b4bb07b015845c092a3205f3ffadd7297e21fef940355ae0e01f
font_01_sfnt_off00012d3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14549 1772 bytes
SHA-256: 300aed257ede909a64163ca5cabeefafe5be11f5443a4dc971c2023b5273973b
font_03_sfnt_off00014d9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D9F 17580 bytes
SHA-256: b8c27c7aefe7e6d138500cb64ead625f3cbe57f4320f767c4e5151d0a8cefa6a