Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d23689af4c80a84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-25 10:18:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 233223e87897163b61732e6fee58e07a SHA-1: 91a6088108ffebf0d00c40ce57af8cfc9c3b557d SHA-256: 8d23689af4c80a84258118da72796894bdbed7794fbb3d01a5f9498505a3abee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other potentially disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish users or lead them to malicious content through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://cpsguffanti.it/uploads/file/14102974460.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mestav.sk/uploaded_images/file/64528907842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/65134182186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaymccarthy.com/immagini/file/gaxedopimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiniceshine.com/upload/fuzovajatar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/suwisijakiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viseronap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355ff4d7e1e---91385603122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e310d8dfb2---paposusadagejizopodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n3ss.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevapowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/37684474416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.peaceofworld.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/82640701923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihappywash.com/uploads/files/202109050100348665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0c3e0010a---fopaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c6da40747b---vevaluvuxomiburuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/44603305959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahdrilling.com/userfiles/files/suzebuledegonabezuxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/51466980212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ud-hobby.com/images/Upload/file/53335759241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadusalepaniwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vucert.vn/uploads/files/gupavonovilazukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometgroupinternational.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93588820088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13069552028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/debifubexeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file/files/zanatexasiwulinawoborogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/wupemotivogekuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=mod+idle+antsPDF 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_off0000b210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB210 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 794123db9fc0d8cb3c2828a044e3b31f662c7a2eaec80083fee34817cb348300
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F4 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 23ee0c78c3d6aa3fbb5ef246e3826f45bb6de79ff71e1a0a1cdd4847b76125e8