Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 823da714504b64c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4257a5e3e5869f3d61984312ecbc3edc SHA-1: a2203d3b110b5ffa70add7d1ae206728ad458c12 SHA-256: 823da714504b64c0227dff50c3e5019ebc5bbd7fdc662d2a5380793fdbcd0b0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites 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 phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common PDF-based lure.

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inviare+fax+con+cellulare+android PDF link annotation
    • https://investkwik.com/userfiles/file/63140164035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiflex.ru/userfiles/file/50757273566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotelek.hu/files/file/50108302947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613509696667f---50823588713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a0abc39ce---liribedinulaxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133565faed5a---4565842062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aallergy.friend-match.com/upload/files/55256548888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeevandeepspecialcare.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fatebozasimum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/ropuwexotalubigomadojog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/nifatanulogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwm-quanta.com/upload/files/14203469693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/17666746209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/kasitepixijezasitupewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabbeleecooking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/levezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mardeestilos.es/fotos/file/nowopitodapibojifiruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1amishc2fb.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7559170876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/wubufewamozusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimsanghun.com/upload/userfiles/file/202197127368730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_8ABE32F05F9284E5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c4c5a0b1c---vegarip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/43955045031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhang.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/70852851410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents/files/44620354075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenkochaya.com/user_data/ckfinder/files/bewodavuruzulod.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD980 18600 bytes
SHA-256: 47b12b43a1205cc322dfdbf7818401ff23a717de0c86d4a445558b0a1c97fc49
font_01_sfnt_off00010a2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12245 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 6f8a1ecc9f98512db77586e2c4dd670b3f71aa9b9ddd3ae6e149fc8013e7439d

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